I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Daesh members wear shoes. Does this mean everybody who wears shoes is Daesh?

I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.

There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.