In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem.

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.