The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It’s frustrating and it’s time-consuming. God bless phone calls.

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

If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.

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

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.

I always knew I could hold people's attention and make them laugh every 30 or 40 seconds, and I got approval and attention for that, so the behavior was reinforced. Later, that became an important skill on the street corner.