Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

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

The most oblivious people are often the happiest.

To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.

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

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

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.