“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
“When I see heavy dramas with no comic relief, I don't think they're honest. I don't think people go through life miserable all the time; in fact, if you're very miserable, you giggle a lot at the oddest things."--Carl Reiner in "The Trib”
“Ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect”
“Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.”
“It’s hard to walk briskly at this time of year; the accelerating pace of unfolding spring slows my own. I repeatedly stop- to watch what’s moving. Soon the torrent of migrants will completely overwhelm my ability to keep up with all the changes. But it’s easy to revel in the exuberance and the sense of rebirth, renewal.”
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”