Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.