Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.