Lewis Black Quotes

I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan - thin, slow, and it leaks.

I never did think I had brain damage.

The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than the stroke, the impact that concussions have had on my life, particularly as I get older.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.

They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.

I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

The president was madman Reagan who's got Alzheimer's and has lost his mind. He now crawls on all fours.