You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn't really make sense.

Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually.