Andy [Griffith] and I spoke on the phone not too long before he died. I told him I loved him and he told me he loved me. He was a wonderful man.

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

I love Mayberry! The people here are wonderful! When I'm at the grocery store people come up and hug me. Friends pick me up and take me for rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway and I always love that.

I love to meet people for lunch at my favorite restaurant, the Loaded Goat. It is named after the Andy Griffith Show episode where a goat ate a bunch of dynamite.

Don Knotts left [Andy Griffith Show] to pursue a movie career, so once he was gone I left too.

We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.

I still stay in touch with Elinor Donahue. I've known Elinor since she was 14-years-old.

George Lindsay who played Goober thought Andy Griffith Show limited his career.

In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.

Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. “I’m embalmed.” “Potted and splificated?” “Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better