I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he was in his early twenties, there were things mentioned that showed up in his novels. One of the sweetest things in those letters was him wanting to be a writer but doubting himself, not having confidence in himself.

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.