"I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK."

“Too much thinking, not enough feeling.”

“I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.”

“Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.”

“I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.”

Source : Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America - even those designated as 'unlawful enemy combatants.' If you make this exception the whole Constitution crumbles.”

Source : "The Memo". Interview with Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. February 27, 2006.

“...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...”

“If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.”

“You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you...”