I've been doing stand-up 29 years; there is no other career when you're finding your stride 30 years into it.
Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.
I was thinking - if we get a cell with a trouser press, we can make cheese toasties.
It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.
Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?
My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.
When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.
I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws-that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow. . . they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: for they win in advance, defeating those that have already lost.