You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.

Some people say Earth is the bottom level of Purgatory.' She pointed toward the floor and frowned.'I call it the top floor of Hell.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

My mother kept asking me, "When are you going to do a gospel album?" And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

The woman who steals your boyfriend has the ugliest shoes on earth. Truly hideous. You wouldn't be caught dead in them.

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.

What you do not eliminate - you accumulate.

Maybe there wasn't much hot water in the showers. I'm not sure.

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.