Everybody agrees that a future in which you are dead is a very bad thing, and that it isn't made any better by your not being around to notice how bad it is.

I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.

On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

Your drawbacks is not just the evil you did but the good you refuse to do

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.

On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.