How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

Man is a universe within himself.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

Be content to seem what you really are.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.