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

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.

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.

You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali

Anything good is worth the patient and the endurance.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

With opportunity comes responsibility.