You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

Your destiny is forged in the fires of your determination

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

The Darkness at Irving. Hope to have as much fun doing anything ever as these guys have on stage.

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist