Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.