You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

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

Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

I just love it when I hear a little commotion, someone leaving. When I see those doors in the back . . .

My father and mother separated when I was two months old.

It's difficult enough for a young person to put his soul on the line in front of a lot of drunken people without having that hanging over his head, too.