Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.

If it weren't for fear, I wouldn't have to teach you a damn thing

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.

If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.

Some people in this life think they're worth something, or that they have a right to things. I never thought I had a right to anything 'cause of the way I was broken as a child. And therefore I was sort of floating around and would get sucked into things.