I put so much energy into with improv. You can only perform it at a place where people are, essentially, taking improv classes so that they just appreciate what's happening.

Since I was 14. I grew up surfing. That's all I wanted to do.

Just start writing and you'll find what you want to say.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.

I've had a good run of birthdays, and now no one will notice when I die.

Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.

I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.

Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.

It's so much harder to make a living off improv. Improv is so rarified and for such a specific audience.

How the story will end, no one knows? We can only envisage.

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

Don't aim to be a perfect being

I am a true winner not because my life is free from struggles, challenges and obstacles, but because I always believe that there are some effective solutions to my difficulties in life.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.