The laugh is what trumps everything.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

The world needs less destruction.

You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of course.

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.