People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.

What wine goes with Captain Crunch?

Every day I break my own personal record for number of days I have been alive.

So far, this is the oldest I've been.

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.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.