In this nation, leadership is dollars.

When something is over, it is over.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

Life is about having a good time.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts

Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

Potty mouth, rock star, at the top and still tryna climb, Drop the top sit back recline

Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.