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I always loved comedy but I didn’t start formally until I was in college.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

When I got to 40 or so… I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.