Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

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

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'.