I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing I learned from Danny Simon.

Some people think about sex all the time; some people think of sex some of the time; and some people never think about sex: they become lawyers.

The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is an appreciation of theater and music - these are cultural things one does associate with values that are promulgated by Jewish families. I think that's a good thing.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.

How am I immature? Intellectually, emotionally, and sexually. Yeah, but in what other ways?

My brain? It's my second favorite organ!