I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.