I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

You write about what you know.

It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

Drugs scared me.

I am not honest.

I believe in something.

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'