I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods - except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.