“If Resistence couldn’t be beaten, there would be no Fifth Symphony, no Romeo and Juliet, no Golden Gate Bridge. Defeating Resistence is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.”

“There is no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says ‘Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyways.’ Either way, nothing happens.”

“A TV series is like a pretty big boat that you can run with a couple of people. A movie is a yacht, there are so many people, it is a beautiful thing, there is a lot of money involved, everybody wants it, and everybody thinks it’s the ultimate way to go across the water. And stand-up, for me, is a surfboard, it’s just you. You paddle out, you try and catch the energy, your all on your own, and you can do it and go home and nobody but you really will know what happened. I think the more people you add to the vessel, the faster you are going to struggle to maintain its progress through the water.”

“The biggest advantage is not thinking it’s a crazy idea.”

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”