“Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!”

“I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.”

“Oh, call my brother back to me!
I cannot play alone:
The summer comes with flower and bee,—
Where is my brother gone?”

“Block [my blog] if you want, but I cannot self-censor, because that is the only reason I have the blog. We both know this is a game. You have to play your part, and I have to play mine.”

“I have given my word that only death will take me from you.”

“Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.”

“Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.”

“I like to play with words. In English, there's only one or two ways to say something; in Chinese there are 30 ways.”

“It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.”

“I am not a comic, I have never told a joke… The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him… My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can…. They say, 'Oh wow, Andy Kaufman, he's a really funny guy.' But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads.”