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

It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

Let's suppose we all just materialized on Earth and there was a bunch of potatoes on the ground, okay? There's just six of us. Only six humans. We come into a clearing and there's potatoes on the ground. Now, my instinct would be, let's everybody get some potatoes. "Everybody got a potato? Joey didn't get a potato! He's small, he can't hold as many potatoes. Give Joey some of your potatoes." "No, these are my potatoes!" That's the Republicans. "I collected more of them, I got a bigger pile of potatoes, they're mine. If you want some of them, you're going to have to give me something."

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer.

Heroin, forget it. In my neighborhood, I could see what heroin did firsthand and I was definitely afraid of that number.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.