Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

Courage is exhilarating.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.