Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

But it wasn't anyone! ... What could I say I was a freak - an Empty.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

Some people will totally get restless, since you can make demos pretty easy. It's not unreasonable for someone to say, "All right, can you just record this and go home and work on it?"

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

I was going to get my teeth whitened, but I said, "I'll just get a tan instead."

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.