My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

My whole act is confession.

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

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.

Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.

Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?