There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it was?

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations and the profit motive - those two factors have, in my opinion, brought us to the point where almost nothing can stop the utter destruction of the environment and all our earthly life-support systems.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny [Bruce], certainly not in terms of social commentary.

Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.