In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

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 became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.