The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

The holes in my shoes and the holes in my jeans make me whole!

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

It was cool to have Mark [Hamill] ask me to do all these voices for him like he was a fan. I was like, "You're not meeting me, I'm meeting you."

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.