There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.

The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.