As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

I developed several comedy phone calls.

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.