Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.

Laughter is a force for democracy.

Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.