You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.

I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.