"I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase."

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"A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done."

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"I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone."

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"I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy."

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"I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all."

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"I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians."

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"Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself."

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"And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy."

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"I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport."

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"People in New York love having roof parties."

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"I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that."

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