Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.

(...) Since I was a kid.""Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'""Right.

Hey, Cath. Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?

My only chance is to pretend it's a day like any other

To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.

Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

After eight years of Obama one thing is clear: Conservatives want a fighter.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.