Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.