I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.

I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.