“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Wake up and ponder the future.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I’m angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

The nicer the point, the more — the better I feel, the more excited I get. But I never play that my opponent looks stupid. I think that is wrong. I have too much respect for every opponent I play.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.

I’m a singer. I’m a dancer. I’m a performer. I’m an actress. That’s what I’m supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?