Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

I can show you who's the man Let me show you with my hands I just want you close to me I'll get you wet Just wait and see

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

When you do late-night TV, you do different jokes in the same place every night. When you're on the road as a comedian, you do the same jokes in a different place every night.

When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.