It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Its best to live imperfectly happy living a life of your own choice than to imitate someone else and be a plastic doll.

Food! Oh my god, I love food. Sugar makes me come alive.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?

Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

The more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become.

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.