Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

Pessimism is my default setting.

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea that I needed to be better than everybody else.