I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.
Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.
I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside
I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.
In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery. Because we never dealt with that evil, I don't think slavery ended in 1865, it just evolved.
Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.
You know your path, child, now follow it.