All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.