There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.

Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming.

I respect animals. I have more sympathy for an injured or dead animal than I do for an injured or dead human being, because human beings participate and cooperate in their own undoing. Animals are completely innocent. There are no innocent human beings.

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.