Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

One who is truly confident is able to apologize.

He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.

So Fox News is the voice of America and Obama is Stalin? Oh my God! I guess that makes me Yakov Smirnoff.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.