Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

I find myself smiling, finally. I guess I do remember how to do it. You just turn the corners of your mouth up.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

My voice has gotten better from smoking.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.