The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.