"In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty."

“I like working in television a lot. It's nice to have a place to go every day and a group of people to hang out with and work alongside with a common goal. But I think I'll always love stand-up more, because there's so much to discover. But you cannot beat television money with a stick. Not with a stick.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it”

“Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.”

Source : Interview with Richard Lapper and Jonathan Wheatley, www.ft.com. July 11, 2006.

“The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.”

“Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”

“My marriage is the most important thing in my life, but in a weird way I'm able to focus on other things more clearly by having it in my life.”

Source : "An interview with Max Bemis of Say Anything". Interview with Ryan Broderick, www.thehofstrachronicle.com.

“Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.”

“I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.”

Source : Last words, quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, 2002.