But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Reality: What a concept!

You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act.

My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn’t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!

Be prepared for luck.