Quotes & Jokes by Robin Williams / page 10

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I'll guarantee you'll win.

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for.

And the French! The French have a bomb too! Maybe they have the Michelin Bomb- ah! Only destroys restaurants under four stars! They are the one of the only people that still test their bombs! Where do they do it? In the Sahara, in the total wasteland? No, fuck off! In Tahiti! In paradise. Why? Because we're French. Oh, look, a Greenpeace boat coming to protest- fuck off, I sink you.

There have been two different drafts of the script. The hard part about following it up is at the end of the first one, he revealed his identity to his kids. How do you play that out? How does she come back? One of the ideas was that he'd go to New York because his daughter was going to college and he'd be nearby. But as a script, it never worked.

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

Every human being has an impact on another.

I feel like I'm a big human snot.

I was the equivalent of a 98 pound weakling. I would go to the beach and people would throw copies of Byron in my face!

If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.

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

There are so many beautiful parts of the world... Thailand, Italy, the south of France. There are places in Spain that are astonishing. But here... 25 miles and you go up on Mount Tam to see the fog come in; 25 miles the other direction and you're somewhere else that takes your breath away. There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.

It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp.

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.