You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.

The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.