CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.

Brace for the worst, hope for the best

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

The coward is an object to be pitied.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.