Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

If you've had the time to think about it, then you have time to pursue it.

Determination Determines Your Destination

My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey my family it seems begins where yours left off.

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

You are who you choose to be.

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.