When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

There was a period when I was getting a lot of banana bread, because I mentioned someone cooked me banana bread, and then everyone cooked me baked stuff, and I would take it to the hotel, and it was making me fat.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.