I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.

I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind.

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.