I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was as a straight comic in the Sixties. The second was as a counterculture performer in the Seventies. The third will be...well, that's for others to judge.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream. So there is some compulsion involved. But the dividend I get is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.