When you decide to be something, you can be it.

The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?

No one gives it to you. You have to take it.

We're all gonna die, let's act accordingly.

Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

There's no justice in this world.

You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

A lot of people had to die for me to be me.

The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve

Why does a man destroy himself or what destroys him? I would have to judge that suicide is mostly the tool of the thinking man. The right to suicide should be the same as the right to love.

That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach me to go hide in a temple.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

There is no one anywhere as available to everyone everywhere as is God.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.