It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'