Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

Behold the child by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle tickled with a straw.

Obviously the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.