I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

My parents were my worst audience.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel?*Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.