Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Comedy is taken care of by a free market.

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.