Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.

Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.

No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.

Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Change always starts with a girl.

Give yourself room to make mistakes because you're human. We've got to make mistakes, and allow ourselves to make those mistakes.