“How many people have never raised their hand before?”

When I die, now don’t think that I’m a nut, don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.

I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it’s going to work. And then you get the response. It’s great when it’s good.

I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl’s leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.

I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.

I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

There’s someone out there for everyone – even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.

Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.

We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Cut off a wolf’s head and it still has the power to bite.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it

What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.