The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way.

Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

You know who would make an interesting murder-suicide? Madeline Albright and Yanni.

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.