The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

You never see a smiling runner.

Heroin, forget it. In my neighborhood, I could see what heroin did firsthand and I was definitely afraid of that number.

If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance.