Laughter Is A Force For Democracy.

Would You Take A Billion Dollars, If As Part Of The Deal The Earth Were Made Uninhabitable A Year After Your Death? ... Well, Of Course Not; You Care About Your Friends, Above All Your Children, Any Grandchildren. But ... What If The Deal Calls For The Planet To Be Poisoned A Thousand Years Later? We Feel Strong Obligations To Generations In The Near Future - Should We Not Feel The Same Way About Our Children's Great-grandchildren And Generations Beyond Them?

For Me, The Great Problem Growing Up In England Was That I Had A Very Narrow Concept Of What God Can Be, And It Was Damn Close To An Old Man With A Beard.

The Open Mode Is A Mood In Which Curiosity For Its Own Sake Can Operate, Because We're Not Under Pressure To Get A Specific Thing Done Properly. We Can Play.

I Get Bored Easily. I've Been Bored Most Of My Life.

When You've Been Doing Comedy For Forty Years, You Really Do Know Most Of The Jokes. And Even If You Don't Know A Specific Joke, You Can Pretty Much Guess What It's Going To Be.