Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

I'm not making comedy albums. That's too much effort for one joke.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going.

The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.