I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.

I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.

Power is the goal of religion in general.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

Life is about having a good time.

Success is how you collect your minutes.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

When something is over, it is over.

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

Love is talkative passion.