There are very few Japanese Jews. As a result, there is no Japanese word for Alan King.

I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he'll sing it to me.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

The price of Christmas toys is outrageous - a hundred dollars, two hundred dollars for video games for the youngsters. I remember a Christmas years ago when my son was a kid. I bought him a tank. It was about a hundred dollars, a lot of money in those days. It was the kind of tank you could actually get inside and ride in. He played in the box it came in. It taught me a very valuable lesson. Next year he got a box. And I got a hundred dollars' worth of scotch.

I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.