THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.

I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.

I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.