When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.

You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.

I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

Don't think of cost. Think of value.

The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

Now everybody has some secret goals in life.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

Never despair, keep pushing on!