I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

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.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.

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