Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.

To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.

Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.