Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

Thoughts can follow you anywhere.

Each person change themselves first, and then let your change act as a leader for others to make the changes they need.

It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe.

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.

There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.