“I met Joan Rivers, and Joan encouraged me to go to New York. I was not really ready. I did move to New York, and I took my page of jokes that I wrote for Joan, and I went to Rollins and Joffe, the people who promoted Robert Klein and other great people. And...
“Finish what you start. You can’t fix something that’s not done. So if you start writing a book, if you start writing a song, if you start writing a script, a play, that’s awesome. It’s gonna be terrible at first, so don’t worry...
“Something that really in retrospect gave me a breakthrough was writing for an anthology. This publisher said, well, do you have a book? And I’m like, yeah, yeah, I have a book. So they said, we’d like to see it. The anthologies can really sort of...
“Michael Eisner, who is my mentor said, “If you want to have a happy life, be a mentor and have a mentor.” And I would always find kids younger than me or older than me and try to help them along. It’s a virtuous circle, which is an old Greek...
“What I say to almost everyone is the same thing: you have to take your time. You can’t rush. You know, I got a lot of advice from my dad, and he would tell me this one thing. He’d say, “It takes about three to five years to write a good book....
