The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.