I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

... you're nuts but you're welcome here.

If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.