In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.