Take it easy, but take it.
As a child I most closely identified with Charlie Browns teacher. Nobody listened.
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.
I suppose the problem. . . is that we have an inside and an outside. We've got problems both places, but it's so hard to tell where the one stops and the other takes up.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
It is one of the triumphs of human wit. . . to conquer by humility and submissiveness. . . to make oneself small in order to appear great. . . such. . . are often the expedients of the neurotic.