Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

We’re on a mission from God.

We don't need no stinking badges!

On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.

I hate Illinois Nazis.

In your 20s, you feel like you're indestructible...In your 30s, you think...I'll be around here a little longer, so I'm going to take better care of myself.

Christ. Seven years of college down the drain.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

In a day it happens for once in my mind that you are the only one I have waited for

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

I am a free spirit. I am very impulsive. I put the most trust in people chance after chance, regardless of how they treat me.

I don't really like the world 'muse.'

Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.