The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.