History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is... worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as go...od as new. What is broken is broken--and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.... I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't. My dear, I don't give a damn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really... want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an "act" and he told the audien...ce, "This is my act." Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Zorba: Why do the young die? Why does anybody die? Basil: I don't know.... Zorba: What's the use of all your damn books? If they don't tell you that, what the hell do they tell you? Basil: They tell me about the agony of men who can't answer questions like yours. I spit on their agony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »