I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

I believe in anything that works.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.