I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.

Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!

The most oblivious people are often the happiest.

Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.

I have no idea how it got so big. I was just trying to find something to do while I was living in Boulder, Colorado, which isn't really a funny town. There are a lot of smart people there, but comedy isn't at the forefront of their minds.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.