My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.