What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can learn what we can improve the solutions and pass them on.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was the present worse than it is and the future less resolved than it will be.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

For some reason people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not I seem to be it.

I write about wounds the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

For some reason and I don't know why but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.