The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.