It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet.

Start off each day with a song.

Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone!

Everybody wants ta get inta da act!

I hate music, especially when it's played.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.