If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire.
I’m a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?
Conservatives say if you don’t give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they’ve lost all incentive because we’ve given them too much money.
What year did Jesus think it was?
Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it’s from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it’s shocking for them.
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.
Israeli murderers are called “commandos,” Arab commandos are called “terrorists.”
Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I’m not saying I’m better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.
Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes, if you’re really looking.
With the proper training, I could’ve been an evil genius.
Life is a series of dogs.
It’s depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.
I don’t have any beliefs or allegiances. I don’t believe in this country, I don’t believe in religion, or a god, and I don’t believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.
I think religion is very anti-man. I think it’s a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has – to be rejoined with the one somehow, to become a part of the universe. Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.
Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that’s our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.