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.

I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.

Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.

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

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.