For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.