My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.