Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

If heaven exists, to know that there's laughs, that would be a great thing.

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."

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.