I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.

Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.

I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you're all right. I don't have to go to premières.

[Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.