The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.

Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

It's a date.""It's a cookie.""It's a cookie date.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.

When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.

It's better to die than to never really have lived.