Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.

The common thread of my comedy shows is conflict and, I guess, the frustration of people who either argue with you or just say stuff which is blatantly incorrect, and nobody calls them out on it.

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.