“Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.”

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug – and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun.

When I was growing up they used to say, “Robin, drugs can kill you.” Now that I’m 58 my doctor’s telling me, “Robin, you need drugs to live.” I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

To live would be an awfully big adventure.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.

There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we’re shopper-borrowers.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

Death – to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it’s pretty certain that she has his.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.