"I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic."

"My whole act is confession."

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

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

"Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience."

"Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love."

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

"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."

"So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up."

"I will always love to perform standup comedy."

"I quit smoking well over twenty years ago."

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

"While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun."

"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."

"I was an actor before becoming a comedian."

"Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside."

"As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy."

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

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