There's nothing better than going out there and performing and making that connection with audiences. Even after all this time I get the biggest buzz from that.

In a world full of people, only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy?

What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

We're never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy.

Everything really is beautiful if you choose to see it that way.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger. When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist.

Packing is my pet hate.

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

...I know there's no such thing as forever. So what can we be, in the now?

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."

There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.