... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

Only a few things are really important.

The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.