History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

I think when I first started out, I had a kind of an exuberance about language, comedy, narrative leaps that... stopped just short of non sequiturs. And I'm much more cautious now.

I was a huge fan of Steve Martin, as everyone I knew in comedy was.

When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.