A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
Put your good where it does the most.
Death was Patrick Henry’s second choice.
I’m related to the portrait painter George Romney.
I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I’d just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
There are no mistakes and it’s never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.
I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.
Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.
Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life.
The whole earth is in jail and we’re plotting this incredible jailbreak.
It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
There’s always a little bit of heaven, even in a disaster area.
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore.
What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000.