“You're not the last of the old Jedi, Luke, you're the first of the new”

“I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.”

“If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.”

“There's an old saying that states something about leaving the best for last. [Writer/producer] George Lucas certainly didn't follow that adage when crafting the original Star Wars trilogy. Return of the Jedi, the final installment of the series, is easily the least innovative and most hokey of the three films. In fact, most of the enjoyment derived from this motion picture comes from the simple act of getting together with old friends and enemies one more time. If Luke, Han, Leia, and Vader were replaced by nameless, faceless characters, Return of the Jedi wouldn't be a whole lot more interesting than Independence Day.”

“If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish”

“Be not the first by whom the new is tried,’ as that poet fellow said, ‘Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”

“A reader told me recently, in London, said that 'well, I read that you write the last sentence first, so I always read your last sentence first.' And I said, 'oh, no, you're not supposed to do that.”

“If you're a man and you can't remember the last time you had sex with a woman, you're either gay or married.”

“If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. ”