Do you think trees are the new birds? Don’t answer that right away.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

When I first started on Twitter, a relative asked, 'Aren't you concerned with giving away your jokes?' I don't think of it that way. That's my content, and that's what I do.

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way they are a microcosm of the Internet.

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

Motivation is the greatest gift to stimulate the feable minded.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.

You can't wait for the perfect situation. Find something you love. People you love. And get out there and you'll discover it.

When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.