You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.

Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.

When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

All that happened before is part of the process that brought you to now. And that is all. Just a step along the way.

Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

I'm not going to judge what I do.

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

I consider myself to be a romantic person, and I love the idea of having a soul mate.

I have some speakers up here, thank God, because last night I didn't have them and I was telling jokes and I had no idea which joke I was telling. So I told jokes twice. I even told that one twice.

I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentines Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.