We mock the things we are to be.

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

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

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

Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

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

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.