You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'.

A boy trying out a man's language.

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

It's very rare that an older comedian sort of slips into an old-school clunker. You know, you don't hear too much of that anymore.

Just because you couldn't do it yesterday doesn't mean you can't do it today.

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.