After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

I always write tons of different styles.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I think filmmakers in general are, as the tools become more and more advanced, you're able to tell stories in a way that I think is more realistic. The technology just wasn't there up until pretty recently, and it takes a bit of time for the normal artistic way of approaching something to become a mainstream thing.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.

The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.

The strip of earthy, faintly visible outside the window, was running faster now, blending into a gray stream. Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

I know what I want up to the age of two hundred. Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him.