Quotes from Lewis Black


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Everybody's family has different values.


I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else.


When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.


If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.


This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.


One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.


In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.


If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them.


You're on Facebook, and these people seem to have endless lives. I don't have time to live my life, let alone tell you what I'm doing, or post a photo.


Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!


Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.


I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.


You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.


What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.


I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.


I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people.


One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.


I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.


I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.


The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.