It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.

Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity.

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.

I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.

In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

Heaven with my angel. It doesn't get any better than this.

I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.