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.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.

The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage.

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.

I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.