When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning.

Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.

I always knew I could hold people's attention and make them laugh every 30 or 40 seconds, and I got approval and attention for that, so the behavior was reinforced. Later, that became an important skill on the street corner.

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

Everything beeps now.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.