I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was as a straight comic in the Sixties. The second was as a counterculture performer in the Seventies. The third will be...well, that's for others to judge.

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.

Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.