The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.

It's probably not love if you don't press your face to the toilet seat after they've used it to feel their warmth.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

I want people to feel good about themselves.

People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.