Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

When something is over, it is over.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

Life is about having a good time.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

My path is about Joy.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

Bird boy kept us out there in the freezing rain while he yammered about the Red One this and Red One that. Darius got Zoey in here despite his help".