Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.

I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

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

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.