I Get A Kick Out Of People

Greatly Talented Performers Don't Know - Often Spectacularly - What's Best For Them, Don't Know What Their Talents Really Are, And Don't Know What's Just Plain Wrong For Them.

I Think We Live In An Age Of Increasing Mediocrity.

I Did Standup While Still Working For Johnny Carson In The Mid-'60s, Thus Gaining The Advantage Of At Least Getting Laughs From Him About How I Hadn't The Night Before.

Coming Up Through The Ranks Of Any Calling Can Be Rough, But That Battered Soul Who Survives The Early Years Of Courting The Comic Muse Comes Close To Knowing What Only The Soldier Knows: What Combat Is Like.

Why Anyone, By Dying, Should Thereby Be Declared Beyond Criticism, Innocent Of Wrongdoing, Suddenly Filled With Virtue And Above Reproach Escapes Me.