I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

But time heals, as they say, or more to the point, fresher wounds help us to forget the old scars.

But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.

I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.

Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.