I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are like people who believe they can get rid of the cockroaches in their kitchen. They're in for a big surprise late one night when they turn on the light.

I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong.

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.