I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.

I took it back: he didn't just hate himself down deep. He'd made plenty of room in there for me, too.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

God is thy law, thou mine.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.