My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement.

2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you into a long-distant, fictional world, it's ideal, I think.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people

You're on your own out there with ten mates.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.