Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

Little pitchers have wide ears.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work.

If any of you cry at my funeral I'll never speak to you again.