When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

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 don't have a show anymore. I don't have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got to score a million tonight or it could all be over.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Funny is funny is funny.