The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.