I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like that old Black voice, and I love the sort of old Black man with a corncob pipe, sitting there telling a whopper.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's head that takes the foot off the breaks. You can think in someone else's head.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.