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.

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

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.

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.

They serve God well Who serve his creatures.

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.

I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Dignity is an anachronism.

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.