Quotes About Inspiration

We have truth in order not to die of art.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

One does not have humor. It has you.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.

FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch's playing! I have always loved that about him.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

I think people need a little joy and humor as well as commitment in their lives

Now, the band that inspired that great saying, "Stop The Music!!"

It's not the books by Stephen King that I read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!

We're authors. We're more than a little unstable.

I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.