A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

The problem with drugs is that most of the people that use the drugs, use it as a license to be an asshole.

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.

lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people don’t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Don’t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, it’s going to take care of everything for you.

Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.

It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.