This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

Be relentless and then you'll break through.

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the team but in the community.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Sometimes I wish I lived more in the day, but I'm happier thinking about tomorrow or the day after. The way I see it, there's always a new or next thing.

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.