“Comedy’s enemy is distraction.” – pg. 2
“I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product.” – pg. 2
“I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts.” – pg. 29
“All entertainment is or is about to become old-fashioned.” – pg. 51
“I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.” – pg. 54
“Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.” – pg. 104
“To politics I was saying, ‘I’ll get along without you very well. It’s time to be funny.'” – pg. 144
“In psychoanalysis, you try to retain a discovery; in art, once the thing is made, you let it go.” – Eric Fischl, pg. 202
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