Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

We need to be patient to wait for the beautiful beginning of a new day

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others?

You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.