"You can't be funny if you don't have good material."

"It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it."

"I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up."

"I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin."

"All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions."

"Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way."

"Not to transmit an experience is to betray it."

"When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure."