I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I the token woman on this list? Because I'll take it.'

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

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

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 you listen to music, dance daily and mediate, you have the best medicine for your mind, body and soul.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

I don't think someone should try to bully and insult their way to the presidency.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

The reality is that I am the Teacher.

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.