If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.