My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.
Don't go back over your life with a red pen.
There are certain jokes that indicate how mainstream a comic is. If you're talking about how the side effects of drugs that they advertise on TV are worse than the actual illness they're supposed to prevent, that's like the hackiest joke out there now. If you're still doing that joke, that usually is an indicator of being mainstream, in a bad way.
It was early on when I was really focused and obsessed with doing The Tonight Show and Letterman and stuff like that. Then, I quickly realized that those things don't make or break a career.
I really shine in front of prominently Jewish crowds. Normally I really beat myself up, but as far as Jewish audiences go, I'm at the top of my game.
I hate nickels; they're quarter impersonators.
There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow more precious than a pot of gold.
Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.
When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.
At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two known sources. This intermittent feature was curious, and I recall saying once that we would have to investigate the origin of that interference some day. We joked that it was probably due to the faulty ignition of some farm hand returning from a date.
My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.