As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.

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

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

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W.Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. And that's not funny.

For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.