There is no such thing as #1 in art.

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

The key is to do what you love.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.

I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.

It had that kind of open-ended fear to it - like that feeling you get when you're driving and you see a cop. And you're not speeding. You don't have drugs. But you're just thinking, I hope he doesn't notice I'm driving.