The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.