Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

My philosophy involves imaging terrible things happening all the time, and getting used to it, so reality isn't so bad. And then you're always happy. You really just have to think yourself through it. That is how I've been able to come to happiness, but it is a subtle difference between scaring yourself all the time with terrible things happening, it's more about actually about making peace with it. That's my advice.

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.