A true initiation never ends.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.