In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.
Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.
I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.
More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter. ' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure. ' But that's the truth.
You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.
In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.
I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'
Conscience is better served by a myth.
Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way. It's hard to escape your culture.
The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.