I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't believe in karma.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

Be appreciative... that's what keeps me happy.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.