It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

When the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the canal.

He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.

Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

You'll get back to where you came from.