"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

"Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis"

"Life is an occasion...rise to it."

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."

"You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen."

"My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen."

"I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries."

"You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is."

"I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff."

"I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better."

"George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live."

"If you had no enemies, you had no fun."

"My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in."

"The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal."

"I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy."

"My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York."

"I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture."

"There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid."

"Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish."

"I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time."

"I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice."

"I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award."

"I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job."

"The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media."