I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.