How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.

I don't wanna live on in my work. I wanna live on in my apartment.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it's the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don't think of the joke and then say it. I say it and then realize what I've said. And I laugh at it, because I'm hearing it for the first time myself.

Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier to remember three minutes of dialogue than three hours.