Robin Williams

Avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys – to woo women – and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

Robin Williams

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

Robin Williams

Beer commercials usually show big men doing manly things, ‘You just killed a small animal: It’s time for a lite beer.’ Why not a realistic beer commercial? ‘It’s five o’clock in the morning, you’ve just pissed in a Dumpster: It’s Miller time!’

Robin Williams

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

Robin Williams

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer – you can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

Robin Williams

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

Robin Williams

Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles.

Robin Williams

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Robin Williams

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Robin Williams

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Robin Williams