The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.

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.

Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.

When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.