The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.