I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him.

And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having….

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a ….

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live ….

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation..

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup..

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt..

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story..

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, jus….

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ..

Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours..

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself..

When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd lik….

I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know w….

I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and re….

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities..

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them..

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover..

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath..

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for….

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos..