Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.

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.

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?

I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'

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.

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