There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you.

I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart

I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.