“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually – a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be.

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.

As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.