I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.