“When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.”

Voting really doesn’t mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it’s kind of a sham.

Fame is not your friend. It ain’t necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there’s a difference in the people, and I had health care.

I’m actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.

You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they’re gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

We don’t need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.

The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don’t really look for that, and I don’t expect to find it in any city.

I do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there’s so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I’m dead serious.

Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He’s really dumb.

I think there’s a lot of good and bad to L.A. One of the things you have to consider is that you can, if you’re lucky, make a decent living here. That’s a big plus. That’s pretty positive. The weather is OK.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

I was stubborn and refused to chase, I threw my ego away and chased; it does not matter. Some people are just not meant to be.

The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.

This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.

When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.

Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.

Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is.

In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.