Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk about spiritual experiences using the vocabulary of light: Saul on the road to Damascus, near-death experiences, samadhi or the light-filled void of Buddhist enlightenment.