The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.