In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact... always supersedes belief.

When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here

The source and content of information remain the same...the response creates divergent emotions, while negative response creates jealousy positive creates motivation.

The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.

Where life ends, peace begins!

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality. It takes you out of the dream - or out of the nightmare.

You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.