Communism is like one big phone company.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.

A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.