A biography for Lenny Brucehasn’t been written yet.
“Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.”
“I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.”
“I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.”
“I don't have an act. I just talk. I'm just Lenny Bruce.”
“The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.”
“The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.”
“A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.”
“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
“Communism is like one big phone company.”
“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.”
“If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”