Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with a political system that wants to put idea men out of business, then you have worry on your hands.

The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.

Catholic girls with tiny little mustaches.

When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass until he can't come anymore.

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.