I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

When something is over, it is over.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

Life is about having a good time.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

Each step you take from Jesus Christ, brings you closer to hell.

The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.

We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.