An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.

I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.

I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.

When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage.