A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.

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.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up.

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.

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.