Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.

This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond to what's happening in the room and weave it back into the prepared material and so on.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times in different points in different people's lives, and obviously there are lots of people who experience the presence of death much more keenly and much earlier than I did. But we all come to grips with it eventually.