Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.

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