Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

I have a shocking memory - I remember everything.

You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

God is faithful. God is faithful. 400 years might go by, but never count God out.

The more you look, the more you will see.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.