An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

It's no fun being a specimen.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.