As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
ALAN KINGAs a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
ALAN KINGComedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
ALAN KINGBanks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
ALAN KINGModesty is not one of my virtues.
ALAN KINGWe watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
ALAN KINGMy brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
ALAN KINGOne morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, ‘It’s a little cloudy.’ I took the tube from her and said, ‘Let me run it through again,’ and drank it. The nurse fainted.
ALAN KINGThe world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
ALAN KINGMarriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
ALAN KINGNow that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
ALAN KINGLet’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
ALAN KINGFor me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
ALAN KINGWhen I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
ALAN KINGI always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
ALAN KINGWhen I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I’m going to have for dinner or I can’t get through the day.
ALAN KINGWe set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
ALAN KING