The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.

I try not to see new comics - their acts or their films. Part of that is professional. I don't want to be influenced. But another part is fear and jealousy. I'm afraid to see how good they might be. I don't like that emotion, but it's part of me.

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies.

I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.

We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.