Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

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

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.

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

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 think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his stop on Sheridan Road, he gets off in Evanston, where the El is on the ground, and then he walks back 55 blocks to his apartment. Now, would you want to have that man as a psychologist? A man who misses his stop every day?