Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

My only challenge was to tell my truth, man... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.

Communism is just one big telephone company.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.