A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

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

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

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.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.