The future is called 'perhaps ' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

And regardless of the fact that in this country certainly in the arts we treat comedy as a second-class citizen I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value but as the craft of it being funny.

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny but you're convinced that other people will think it is well they won't.

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child so I'm trying to back off but it's hard. I love him so much and he's so funny and cute to me.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly except shorter and Jewish.

Smoking kills. If you're killed you've lost a very important part of your life.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.