Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.

I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.

Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?

Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always going somewhere. May not know where it is, but there is some sort of unnamed destination. There is some pulling, some movement. So I just found myself in that category according to my own analysis.

When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.