My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

All who love are conspirators.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care.

Trouble is a part of life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.

The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.

Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

Any time is a good time to start a company.

I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.