Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

In an age of incompetence I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

I think the sport of wrestling which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34 kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

I am as I've said merely competent. But in an age of incompetence that makes me extraordinary.