Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).

I often think about my future wife and how lax she's been about getting in touch with me.

I'm keeping in shape, you know, gotta look good for the ladies - and certain guys. Hey, I can't control who's looking. I just gotta bring the heat.

You'll get them tomorrow. You gave it a good shot. Keep your chin up.

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

I belong to a gym now... well, let me rephrase that: I don't belong there at all, but I go.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.

Human beings are born of blood, bound by gravity, eventually to perish... fallible by design... destined.

The reward for being sensitive is that we’re held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.

We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us[.]

Some people might leave you, ' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.

It's not about being tough but to accept your weaknesses and work to get stronger day by day.

I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see, and then....one day....I got in!

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.