TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle.

Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired.

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].