When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Dare to risk public criticism.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.