"You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do."

"I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it."

"I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic."

"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity."

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."