“[My mom] passed on to me the love of language, an immense respect for words and their power.” – pg. 9
“[I had] the eternal dilemma of longing to belong, but not liking to belong.” – pg. 140
“I wasn’t using my mind to produce external evidence of my inner state.” – pg. 140
“Some day you will release what you have down inside of you and it will be listened to and heard. […] Insist on being yourself. Don’t let anyone change you or silence you.” – Mary Carlin, pg. 144
“I was stumbling across the difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.” – pg. 146
“I’m going to be the person on the outside that I’ve been on the inside my whole life.” – pg. 152
“I’ve always liked the idea of having a shelf for my stuff. Tangible proofs of the things I’ve done.” – pg. 158
“As long as you have observations to make, […] you will always have material. People have always asked me: ‘Don’t you ever think you might run out of ideas? Don’t you ever worry about not having anything to say anymore?’ Occasionally that does flash through your mind, because it’s a natural human impulse to think in terms of beginnings and endings. The truth is, I can’t run out of ideas – not as long as I keep getting new information and I keep processing it.” – pg. 161
“It’s still one of my favorite pieces, if for no other reason than the grief it caused people who deserve to have grief caused to them.” – pg. 162, about Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television
“I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.” – pg. 164
“I hate to behave in clichés.” – pg. 220
“The noisier the culture becomes, the stronger your voice has to be.” – pg. 236
“The boilerplate definition of satire is taking on the mentality of your enemy […] and taking it to extremes in an ingenious way.” – pg. 261
“Things have a way of telling me when they want to be done.” – pg. 263
“I sort things out well. I place things in my world where they ought to be mentally as well as physically. In fact I move my physical world around in order for my mental world to be a little easier to look at and work with.” – pg. 272
“The creation of material is the ultimate freedom.” – pg. 280
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