My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own.

I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'

If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln!

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.

Logic is logic. That's all I say.

The goal is not to get into a relationship; the goal is to be in a relationship.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

Be not the slave of your own past.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.