“We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.”

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

What’s changed? I’m a dad. That’s fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit.

Certain kinds of people just can’t live life taking risks with adventure.

Slowly you become your own man.

Dynamic benign neglect.

The pervasive attitude is that it’s crazy to invite more danger into your life.

We have a society that’s trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

That’s right! The women are smarter!

Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I’ll create more comedy. It’s just when I shut off and stay at home… What helps me is just to keep moving.

Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn’t have to, and my wife and I went out only for the good stuff. And I wrote mostly positive reviews. Not only. But mostly. And, ooooh, it felt an awful lot better.