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

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

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

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

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.

[Jesus] not only kept Himself from engaging in evil, He also continually acted in ways that honored and glorified god. He not only continually avoided the negative, He always pursued the positive.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

The love within them shone as brightly as the lighthouse beam on the darkest, stormiest night. It broke through her confusion and heartache and filled her with a warm glow.

Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

I’d rather just think of everything positively.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

That was a f****g dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?!

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.