Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

I'd rather be underappreciate, and under worked, than over appreciate and over worked.

There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.