Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming.

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change.

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