There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.