Gluttony is not a secret vice.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we.

I have the nicest life in the world.

Whats better than followers, is actually falling in love

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

The feminazis celebrated Bill [Clinton], all because he was able to just manhandle us.

You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.