I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you.

I have been monitoring your earthly broadcasts for many years.

On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.

Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly 'strange names', but the fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble.