I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.

The only time I've ever been mistaken for someone else is - and this arguable still - when a person came up to me on the boardwalk of Ocean City, New Jersey and said, "You look a lot like that guy from computer ads" and I said, "There is a reason because I am that guy," and the guy looked at me for a minute, laughed and said, "That's a funny joke, but you really do look like him." He thought I was not me.