When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.

I don’t understand why people really get upset about something that doesn’t affect them at all.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

I am yours, ” she whispered. The words cut like knives, barely out of her mouth before he stole them, sealing them with his own lips.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Believe the unbelievable and receive the impossible.

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.