There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important
It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are
Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time
Reality is always too complicated - that's why it's ungraspable.
A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.
I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.
Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.