The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

Dogs lead a nice life. You never see a dog with a wristwatch.

The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.

I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.