Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

Do you think trees are the new birds? Don’t answer that right away.

When I first started on Twitter, a relative asked, 'Aren't you concerned with giving away your jokes?' I don't think of it that way. That's my content, and that's what I do.

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way they are a microcosm of the Internet.

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

The only reason i Fall in love with cigarette.each one take 2 minutes of my life and i love this.

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

I can only say this, a very, very important element of any country, but our country, and in my opinion, the single most important thing that a president can do is the defense of our country.

It's better to prepare than to repair.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.