Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island.

I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.

My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children.

In my day we used to have pray to run into an ex looking great, but now you just post a selfie in your underwear.

God did not put you on this earth simplest to be any person's mom.

I thought that unless people know me, they wouldn't find me funny.

My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.

The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint.

Macbeth:If we should fail?Lady Macbeth:We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.