Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.

As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

A great ship asks deep water.

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

I can remember much forgetfulness.

If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned.

As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.