Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you`re good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

"We can`t hold on to our youth, but what you can hang on to is all the things we`ve been told a zillion times: You have to find the light in your life that you had when you were a little girl or little guy that made you happy."

Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them... even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... That`s why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile-- and we should run the world."

In 1977: "Monogamy is impossible these days for both sexes. I don`t know anyone who`s faithful or wants to be."