Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.

Does he give you zings in your things?

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by what you're going to learn after you leave here.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.