I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and relax.'

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.