When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

It does not matter how old you are. Recognize your calling and begin to work toward its fulfillment

Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you.

To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value. (154)

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?

The Chinese view us as an enemy, very, very militant toward the United States, and I don't even think the United States knows it.

I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.

"You listen to Portishead, you're not like the others. Want some coke?" I'm like, "Nah, man."

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.