One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms of sex and scatological references and so on, therefore, you should do it. So they all limit themselves to these subjects and this vocabulary. My objection is that it is a lack of articulateness. Irreverence is easy, but what is hard is wit. Wit is what these comedians lack.

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 know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

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

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