Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

I would spend absolutely every last minute with my kids, telling them how much I love them and how much I would do for them.

What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you 'turn up missing'?

Ever argue with a female and, in the middle of the argument, you no longer feel safe because of her actions? She may start pacing back and forth real fast, breathing out her nose. You know what my girl do? When she get mad, she start talking in the third person. That's scary as hell because that's her way of telling me that from this point on, she is not responsible for none of her actions.

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.