Mort Sahl

If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

Women have everything they want, and they've never been so unhappy.

I was always biting the hand that fed me. It was compulsive. Kennedy was very good to me, and I attacked him as soon as he was elected. I attacked him before he was elected.

My life needs editing.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

My humor was Victorian - and still is.

Too often, these comedy guys now only care about getting on and then getting off and getting rich.

Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.