I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.