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.

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

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.

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

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

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

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.