“There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I’ll cry.”

I’ve been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.

A guy walks into a psychologist’s convention with a banana in his pocket.When asked about the significance of this he says;well,they were all out of grapes.

You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Funny is funny is funny.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

All I can say about life is “Oh God, enjoy it.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don’t necessarily want to be alive.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.