"Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the premise. So you have to create the premise, paint the picture and then deliver the punch line."

-- Jon Stewart

“My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.”
“The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.”
“To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.”
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
“Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.”
“No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!”
“Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.”
“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

Source : ""The Exchange: Tom Perrotta" by Sarah Larson". www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2011.

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