I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.

Being nuts is its own reward.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

You know, I'm blessed. 'Blessed' is a better way of saying 'rich.'