A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.

Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

I have no sympathy for the people who went to Charlie Sheen's show and were disappointed. That didn't seem very organized! That guy's all over the map!

I've had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.