It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

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.

There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.

How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor's something like banana ice cream with caramel, fudge chunks, cheddar goldfish and pennies - you've got to draw a line there.