I'm for Barack Obama. We gotta have the Muslim cell in there just to piss Rush Limbaugh and the right wing off.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there.

I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back

I am sure that God has given all his time in making you, the remaining human race has been created in haste.

Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.

War settles nothing.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [...] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.

I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.