Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.

I often think about my future wife and how lax she's been about getting in touch with me.

I'm keeping in shape, you know, gotta look good for the ladies - and certain guys. Hey, I can't control who's looking. I just gotta bring the heat.

You'll get them tomorrow. You gave it a good shot. Keep your chin up.

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

I belong to a gym now... well, let me rephrase that: I don't belong there at all, but I go.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.

Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.