Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.

We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.