What else don’t women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

Do you think trees are the new birds? Don’t answer that right away.

When I first started on Twitter, a relative asked, 'Aren't you concerned with giving away your jokes?' I don't think of it that way. That's my content, and that's what I do.

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way they are a microcosm of the Internet.

I love the sacred moment.

I'm an Author, not a Grammarist!

One aspect of perfection, after all, it stands to reason, will be that our need for imperfection will cease. Or, perhaps more precisely: that imperfection itself will cease to have meaning.

Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.

You know the rule. If you're long, you're never wrong.

The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate