When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.