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

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

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.

The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended [by the song 'The Vatican Rag']. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.

The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.