I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.

My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

Responsibility is the choice we make to respond with care.