At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to.

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don’t believe that.

Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship.

Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman’s letter needed to include the usual complaints —...

In general, opinions contrary to those commonly received can only obtain a hearing by studied moderation of language, and the most cautious avoidance of unnecessary offence, from which they hardly ever deviate even in a...

It’s harder to pick and choose when you’re dead. It’s like a photograph, you know. It doesn’t matter as much.

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of ‘Me’, which is basically a tyranny of others.