You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.