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.

As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

People are stupider than anybody.

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

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