Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
. . . I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay evenin a dress or a skirt without getting shot. Each victory gave me courage for the next one.
I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
An interesting thing that I've learned is that "no" doesn't always really mean "no," it just simply means "not now. "