To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.