I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

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.

Greatness is measured by those who like to think. Success is measured by those who like to receive.

Speak after the manner of men.

Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.

When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.

We did really well for a generation after 1989 and the fall of communism. Our liberal values expanded in the world, our prosperity expanded.

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.

I love it when a plan comes together

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.