The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!

If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and entertaining the wrong people with the wrong material and that I was not being true to myself. I went through a metamorphosis into something more authentic for me, a more authentic stage voice and writing voice.