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

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.

I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any sense of normalcy in their lives, any sense of security, and most of them are oddly unique individuals. Let's have a broader conversation with people that have spent their last however-many-years thinking about their lives. I mean, they're philosophers. They're poets. They're people who are on the outside looking in at the world through a different set of values.

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

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