Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
As I say I don’t want to kill myself, I just wouldn’t mind dying.
I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy people in the world?
You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
Better sexy and racy Than sexist and racist.
Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they’re truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they’re greatness as it were improves you.
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?
If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.
A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.
I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it’s just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.
When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I’m going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.