Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!