You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!