A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.
I am careful with my material and presentation.
As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
My whole act is confession.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.
Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.
Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.
I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I'm making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen.
The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty of the movement. The real thing is not reaching, the real thing is the journey. Remember, the real thing is the journey, the very traveling. It is so beautiful, why bother about the goal? And if you are too bothered about the goal, you will miss the journey, and the journey is life - the goal can only be death.