If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.

You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.