There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

In love, we are best pleased when we please others.

Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.

Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

I can't be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I'll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.

[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].