“The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and thei…” — Tom Lehrer

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.