Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.

Fatuous words I don't trust you I trust silenceMore than beauty more than anythingA festival of understanding

How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?

Don’t try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you.”“I hate you, too.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.