I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Snowflake’s journey is a metaphor. A metaphor for what, exactly?I have no freaking clue.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

I've been at stand-up 26 years now: After a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.