Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.

I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.

What is it about men that make women so lonely?

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

My life is filled with ineffable miracles.

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

Have faith in the magic and miracles of life, for only those that do get to experience them.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.

Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.