It's the start that stops most people.
I'm like the Hulk on stage. It's way over the top. That's Bizarro Chris. Sometimes I get off stage and go What did I say?! I'll watch one of my stand-up specials a year later and go Eww, that was mean.
Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released.
Not a Harvard-type education,. . . Just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.
If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!
We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You've got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it's immune to and what breaks it down.
I literally don't know what I'm going to do next. That's successful.
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.
Everyone's got to have a dream. . . It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them.