It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

It's almost like it's my alter ego when I get on stage... I turn into this different person, seriously. Bipolar disorder. I'm tired of everybody touching me and things being plugged into my head.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I'm into, it's real to me. There's nothing fake about it.

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.