Life is my greatest enemy.

You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite of what you are doing now.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

I pulled back on the divorce because there is no rush for it. For medical decisions and a ton of other things, it's just smarter that it's put on hold.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.