As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

My whole act is confession.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I developed several comedy phone calls.

Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet?

All the bad things happen to us when we are alone.

If you're in bad mood, take a deep breath.If you're in good mood, give thanks to God.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

No individual or people can achieve anything without industry suffering, and sacrifice.

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

Negative thinking keeps us from enjoying life.

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

High heels off; I'm feeling alive.