I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, then look to those who have been given less.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.