My Aunt Erna was smuggled out of Nazi Germany in 1939, alive, in a coffin with a spider plant at her feet. When I moved to Los Angeles from New York City in 1974 for 'Happy Days,' I took a cutting with me.

The arts really matter in education. Sometimes the arts are the only way a student is unlocked. Sometimes it's the only way a student can communicate.

I have been known to catch sixty trout in one day.

It's truly unbelievable, the tenacity of life.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.