Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

In the ring, I never really knew fear.