When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.

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.

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.

Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!