No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the whole shebang.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

I've been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Height would be an issue for those who are uneducated.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

People who are from Chicago are just funnier than people who aren't from Chicago.

Who loves, raves.

The one curse in America is that we deny who we really are and what we like.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.