I have always got medicine I want to give to people.

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.

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

A long leash is not freedom.

It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

I like sarcasm. I like snark.

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

Mal Blum's arrival on the indie scene gives us all hope for the future of smart music.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.