But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it.

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.

You stop talking about things when you’ve worked them out. You’re no longer an observer but a participant. You’re too busy for this bullshit.

I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

Save the gerund and screw the whale.