With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.

The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.

I can be a snarky Asshole, or I can be sort of mentally impaired. It's very hard for me to just be normal human being.

If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.