Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

I go to bed early; my favorite dream comes on at nine.

Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?

Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, "You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala."