As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

I think serial monogamy says it all.

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

He is called the horse

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

It is the customer that pays the wages

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.