You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.