One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.
“I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.”
“Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.”