But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.
I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.
When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.
Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.
We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.