Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.