I find it incredibly boring when people are mean about some individuals, especially if the individual has no power. I can understand how someone deems it necessary if somebody is in power to tear them down - I think that's really crucial. I make a lot of mean jokes about myself; as a theme, suffering seems to me a very interesting thing for comedy, but not the suffering of a particular individual.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island?

I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.

I always try to address where I am. I'll talk to the people and try to find out what it is about that particular place that makes it distinct from everywhere else.

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected to it. It's a super-organism of the American state. But there's also a parallel city in there where normal people live.