Richard Pryor had real sincere and vulnerable moments. Now it seems so cheesy if you stop your act and say, "This is why we have to help them kids. We've got to make sure them kids can read."

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band.

There's a deeper conversation to be had on guns, and just because I happen to know where I fall into that conversation doesn't mean that I don't want to have that conversation.

I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to bring it to the world.

When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.

I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

I do like to dress up and look nice, and I'm inspired by people who do the same - people who express themselves through how they dress.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.