Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.