Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

There's no such thing, of course, as an old-fashioned gay guy. They're the most decadent people.

I had a show that people thought used a laugh track. It wasn't; it was the real audience going crazy after everything that resembled a joke, that they could technically call a joke.

I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.