You’re only limited by your lack of imagination and fear of appearing stupid.

When the audience isn't laughing, that doesn't mean that they're not fascinated.

The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.

If I don't have fun, it's my own damn fault.

If you're dumb enough to make me talk I'm smart enough to speak.

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it.

Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.

It's clever, but is it art?

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

I play the piano and write music.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

Jokes are grievances.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.