Robin Williams: I think it's great when stories are dark and strange a...

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

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One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street.

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Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

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Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

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Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.

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If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

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Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

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Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?

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Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

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It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.

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I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund.

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Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

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My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

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Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

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People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.

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Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

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For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

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Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

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Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You're Doing It Wrong.

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I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.