Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.