I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.