I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.

I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do toher what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years.