Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

The doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him 41 bucks and say, 'Get the other 41 bucks from the other guy.'