Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.

I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.