I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs say or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say 'Guys I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail the whole world knows about it.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy era and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.