Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return.

A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that fairy tales aren't real. I drink a potion made from magic beans every day, and it brings me back to life.

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.