If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.
Why must you be in the wrong only when a couple million people think it that way?
There is no hell. There is only France.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is the best.
Drugs aren't bad. Drugs are chemicals. The problem is when those who take them consider drugs to be a license to behave like arseholes.
When we talk about artistic freedom in this country we sometimes lose sight of the fact that freedom is often dependent on adequate financing.
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is in such an abundance, is the fundamental brick of the universe. I say that in the universe there is more stupidity than hydrogen.
The first thing to do in case Ronald Reagan is speaking on television: turn it on and turn down the volume, seat your son in front of the screen and tell him: "If he asks you to get into a car, offers you candy or he asks you to go fight in Nicaragua, say no!".