The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.
I used to come home at night full of inspiration, and sit up with a bottle of Scotch. As I wrote, the words seemed wonderful, just too wonderful to be coming from me. Next morning I always found they were terrible and I could never use anything I wrote.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly.
I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra.
It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared.