Once I learned how to talk, personally, by myself to any number of people, which means do radio without talking to anyone in particular on the air - I just found that my brain became very free to engage in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of doing what I do.

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.

There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels like you're an ex-patriot in Paris in the 20s. You're like, 'Hey, isn't that a young Ernest Hemingway over there? Yeah, I think it is! Hey, let's go have a look and see what he's writing... It's a Gap application.'

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.