I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

Coffee and cigarettes are much better if you want an instant breakfast.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.