Light entertainment means it mustn't teach you anything.

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.

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.

Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.

The way I've been playing, I didn't really care who I was going to be playing first round.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.