We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

I use the word 'fat'. I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight... There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat !

Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke, the ratio of pages kept to pages thrown out declined drastically. But onstage, when rapping about a feeling I already owned, I would sometimes get a burst of eloquence.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.