My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

I fell in love with you because there was a mischief in your eyes.

Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to.

I deeply regret the damage which recent publicity has brought to the Labour Party. However, I reject any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing on my part.

I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.