I'm not offended. Lenny Bruce taught me that everything's funny. You can make everything funny. I don't think that assassinations are funny, I don't think you can make fun of ISIS, but almost everything is funny. And If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? So I don't mind ethnic humor. I like ethnic humor. I like dialect jokes. Laughter is a very subjective thing. If it's funny to you it's funny. And a lot of things are funny to me.

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories

If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.