Life does not play with marked cards. Winning or losing is part of it.
They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.
Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.
You know when you make popcorn there are always those fluffy white kernels that are fun and good to eat but there are also always those burnt, black kernels that don’t pop. You know why they don’t pop? Because they have integrity.
In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.
What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.
Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.
A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.
We're all sheep and lemmings to some degree.
Keeping you safe keeps me in shape.