I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up.

I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.

Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.

When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.

Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?