Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

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

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

The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.