A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far.

never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you