A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

Wisdom is not the domain of the Wiz.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.

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.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.