“I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.”
“Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.”
“If I am not being creative, I get creative with ways to destroy myself.”
“He's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being.”
“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained”
“I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.”