So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

Motivation ignites a flame of fire within our spirit.

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

I haven't always been a patient man...but something tells me you'd be worth the wait.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.

JFK [John F. Kennedy] was young, glamorous, Camelot, funny, engaging. Congress loved him.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without.

I do begin to have bloody thoughts.