I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.

You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.

I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road.

An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter's red spot

Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power.

No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

Whoever controls the territory possesses it.

The actual well seen is ideal.