If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

I saw Danny Kaye in a movie, and he was doing voices and faces on that big, big screen and making whole audiences laugh. It was just an instant hookup.

I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.

I am not a difficult man by any stretch, and I'm saying that with a full and honest inventory going on. I'm not. And I'm not angry on stage. There is a heightening. There is an intensification of the feelings on stage in order to let them carry the room. There is a theatricality about it. The whole thing is oratory, so there's persuasion involved. There's the art of rhetoric involved. And so, with hyperbole and with the desire to really punch the thing home, some of it reads a little more angry.

Like on the airlines, they say they want to 'pre-board'. Well, what the hell is 'pre board'? What does that mean? To get on before you get on?

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

People who own everything know how to relax a little and bend and exhale once in a while, but they're not going to let it get out of control.