Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

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.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.

Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.