I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.

It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.

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.

If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.