We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.