That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

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.

I love you with an intensity that is beyond reasoning.

We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.

I do my best, and that's all I can do.

I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...

Execution is the job of the business leader.

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.