I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.

The effect of the coke on our relationship [with my wife Brenda] was very sick. Now that it's over, those were actually funny times. Looking for each other's coke, hiding it, finding it, doing some, not telling the other. Then fighting over it.

I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.