He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin' life again? Man, that's rough, eh?

Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

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

I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on 'Late Night.' We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.

The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.