Quotes About Contradiction

I'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

I am an old comic trapped in young comic's body.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

Ironically, fashion trends, be it denim or polka dots, have a tendency to perpetuate the contrary.

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

GOD is foolishness and GOD is wisdom all at the same time.

The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it.

everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

Everything is fine, nobody is happy...

The irony is that there is nothing purer than sorrow.

It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.

You can be a nice guy that wants to kill himself.

You know me, but you don't know me. I give you what I want to give you. I relate to villains like that - but I'm not out to destroy the world.

Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.

There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

Stay with me; I want to be alone

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.