People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.