We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.

This road will be new because you will see a given emotion as a choice rather than a condition of life.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

A batsman goes out and is then in until he gets out. This goes on until the last batsman is out, apart from one who is still in and therefore not out.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

Wow. Imagine what God could have done if he'd had money.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.