I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else - that would be fatal.

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

I would rather trust a person than a crowd.

The members of humanity are really and truly souls. We're all part of one great oversoul.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

I love corduroys , because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.