"I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'"

"I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from."

"Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care."

"My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic."

"It is a quiet truth that when you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality."

"For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community."

"To speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery."

"It is a radiant truth that an idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism — an essential principle for the reflective life."