I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.