In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes

But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

If you’re struggling to fit me into a box……. Then build a bigger box!

The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by ‘one-handed’ economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

The only cure for grief is action.

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.