For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote: I give you the world. Have fun blowing it up.

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

We do have a big kind of history in literate tradition of Vikings and we have a lot of Viking blood in Scotland, I mean especially up north wherever you go you see a plastic Viking sitting outside a shop and Viking calendars and - because they - you know they came down and stole all our chicks and then some of them didn't quite get back and ended up settling down here. So there's a lot of Viking blood in Scotland.

That's here on CBS, where the 'C' stands for 'Classy' and the 'BS' speaks for itself.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'