When you hear the ex-politician tell you that the reason they created the War on Drugs was to get black people and to get hippies...that to me is just as shitty as saying all Mexicans are murderers and rapists. Or all Muslims. That's what I'm paying attention to. And everybody is hedging their bets when it comes to marijuana. The government is sitting on this lie saying it's a gateway drug.

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.