Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

There is an oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become an oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop

There is no HellHell is Earth itselfAnd the busy, innocently fraud beingsThey are my demons themselves

I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn't mean I don't lean into her territory every once in a while.

This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

See, decide, attack, reverse.

The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.