That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.

The way I figure it, if you can't tell I'm high by looking at me, I win.

I live in Los Angeles, I know it exists. I know you're not supposed to taste air.

When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

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