I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.

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

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.