I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.

pse.The Scars come before the Stars.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

Fear has a smell, as love does.

Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.

BBJ customers value long-range capability and cabin size, and this product offering enhances both.