All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.