I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

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.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.