Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

I don’t do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

I don’t do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

You’ve got to be an observer. And you’ve got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

Something I’ll always remember – when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that’s kinda wild when you think about it.