Your dreams should never be better than your real life

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

Avocados, it's a food that ain't worth injuring yourself for. If it's a hassle to get into, leave it to the experts.

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).

I have always loved sneakers and sweaters, and I wear a lot of them. And a good t-shirt or a pair of jeans can make you feel so good.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

Even just seconds ahead is unknown; even just seconds after is open to infinite possibilities.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."