There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

Suddenly I burst into song: 'Awe, sweet mystery of life, at last I found thee...' And I felt so good inside and my heart felt so full, I decided I would set time aside each day to do awe-robics. Because at the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?