Even though you're in charge you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.

You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.