The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.