"Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself."

“I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.”

“One must always do what one really cannot.”

“So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within a larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2007). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.”

Source : David BRAINERD (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]”, p.264

“You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.”

“Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.”

“You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.”

“I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.”

Source : "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November, 1997.