For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy...you know...someone whose flaws you can live with...someone who can stand your flaws, too.

I'll be here when you get back.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.

The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.