This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.