My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

I never watched 'Star Trek.'

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.