The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

Might without right makes blight

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.

We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.