They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.

There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

I think it would be fair and right to use some of my land and wealth for a drug-rehab center or an Indian school.