“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires s...” — Georg C. Lichtenberg Quote

“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.”

“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.”

“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.”

“When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.”

“A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.”

“For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.”