Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

Girls can do anything boys can do in high heels!

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see whats underneath.

Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.