People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it.

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies.

My mother and her plans for my future. She had it all worked out. I would attend a nice college, then get a job in advertising. "You'll be one of those smart-looking fellows in their Madison Avenue suits." And I rebelled against [my mother] and her values and her plans for my future at every opportunity.

A scary dream makes your heart beat faster. Why doesn't the part of your brain that controls your heartbeat realize that another part of your brain is making the whole thing up? Don't these people communicate?

Sudden total weight loss.

Israeli murderers are called "commandos," Arab commandos are called "terrorists."

It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.