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.

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.

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

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 Providence granted me with the ability to think, and thinking unveiled to me that, sadly, there was no providence.

Solve this, pink-haired lady.

When one does not die for the other, then we are already dead_

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!