Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. |
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you. |
Anyone should be able to say on stage what they want. But those who have knowledge, do understand that certain things on stage can be abused and misused. And if such topics are used just for laughter, the humor will not stand the test of time. |
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest. |
betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation. |
But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be -- as long as you study, |
Children today know more about sex than I or my father did. |
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. |
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. |
Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific. |
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much. |
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. |
Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is. |
Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language. |
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. |