One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies.

By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.

I became a radio nut. I loved the afternoon serials, and I got into jazz through the radio. I had a subscription to Down Beat when I was 12. And I'd spend a lot of time in front of the minor, miming records.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.