Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

Teaching is performance art.

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.