I'm not driven by being understood.

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

And all I knew about drugs was what I read in magazines like Time and Life. I learned that marijuana was a dangerous addictive drug and that I should stay away from it.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.