What I'm realizing as I get older is that a movie's mainstream success is just as unpredictable as a movie's cult success. Plenty of movies that are truly odd and deserve cults, don't have cults. It's just as much of a crapshoot to be a cult hit as it is to be a mainstream success. Isn't that weird?

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

You know, in Los Angeles, you're constantly in your car, you're sealed up, you're not walking around. Whereas in New York, after a while, all your stuff is kind of public, in one way or the other. I'm not saying either one of those is bad; they're both great for a very specific kind of comedian. And I'm glad that they both exist.

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.