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" I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand. "

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" I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football. "

" Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you. "

" My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. "

" An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent. "

" The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also. "

" I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. "

" Eddie Izzard is wonderful, I think, but I've only seen that one HBO special he did. He's one of the few people who talk about stuff other than girlfriends and relationships and flatulence and genitalia. There are very few of them who actually talk about real stuff. "

" Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. "

" I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery. "

" I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. "

" If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. "

" On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. "

" If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while. "

" It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. "

" Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. "

" Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? "

" I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up. "

" The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. "

" Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. "

" The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines. "

" I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again. "

" Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit. "

" I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. "

" Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. "

" In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.' "

" San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug. "

" You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody. "

" Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs. "

" I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it. "

" When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. "