I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

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

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

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.