When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band.

There's a deeper conversation to be had on guns, and just because I happen to know where I fall into that conversation doesn't mean that I don't want to have that conversation.

I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to bring it to the world.

Richard Pryor had real sincere and vulnerable moments. Now it seems so cheesy if you stop your act and say, "This is why we have to help them kids. We've got to make sure them kids can read."

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

You see, but you do not observe.

You are not a success until you start changing other lives permanently.

Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.