Sandra Bernhard

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.