In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.

Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth.

Oh, I just think that a neat house is the sign of a boring person, that's all. And I don't really like to associate with boring people if I can help it.

It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.