Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.

My heart was still beating, I was still breathing, but was living something more?

If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.