The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on. But we know what's really involved, dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

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.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here