"I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens."

"Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it."

"I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing."

"You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person."

"Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do."

"A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about."

"You'll be free or die!"

"As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices."