As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.

The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.