As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a "giant pattern detector." If we read something that coincides with what we already believe we're more likely to give it credence, while the opposite is not true.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.