We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

I want to be violated by insight.

Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.