If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
Bill HicksFolks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
Bill HicksSo scary watching the news...Like Iraq...could ever under any stretch of the imagination be any threat to us whatsoever.
Bill HicksSometimes my dad even gets on this kick--'You hate this country'....I have to tell him...I just hate being lied to.
Bill HicksThat's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.
Bill HicksI got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know.
Bill Hicks