"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."

“At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.”

“The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.”

“Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand.”

“You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.”

Source : "Brave Interview Series: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.forbes.com. July 1, 2015.

“To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.”

Source : "Cheech And Chong Reunite, At Long Last". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 28, 2010.

“I dont want to be owned by anyone.”

“While the idea of taking you right now, against the wall, is enough to make me lose control, I want you to know that I’m serious. You’re not a hook up. You’re not a friend with benefits. You’re more than that to me.” I closed my eyes, breathing heavily. “Well, that was…really sort of perfect.” “I’m really sort of perfect … Everyone else knows that. You’re just a little slow on the uptake.”

“I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.”