Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

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.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

Navigating change is the new stability.

That’s how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.

Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

Planning trip around the globe, that is in my room.

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross.