On the stage you alone hold the key and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.