I was a high school throw-out.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.