Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

People who feel pain, that’s common. Someone who uses pain to create, this is an Artist.

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.

I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?