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

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.

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.

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.

Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one’s happiness could hurt many others.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

What is attraction (akarshan) in this world? It is open fire and one should be aware of it. Attraction is the open fire. The root of illusory attachment (moha) is indeed attraction.

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can’t also get from vegetables and fruit.

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.