I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.

I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.

I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.

Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to your own dreams and there will always be people who want to hear them.

No doubt, the biggest challenge before you is to protect yourself from sadness, because happiness belongs to the theory of uncertainty.

Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.

One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result