I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

The human voice is still the most paramount vessel or weapon to use, to uphold justice and to protest against injustice.

Attachment to the hurt is the root of all suffering.

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.

I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.