So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

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

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.

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.