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

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

You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.

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.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

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