If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

One does not have humor. It has you.