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“Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.”
Source : Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”
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“I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.”
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“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”
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“I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.”
Source : Source: www.wbur.org
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“That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.”
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“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.”
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“I died last night. Seventy years too young.”
