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

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.

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.

If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.

Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!

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

Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.

What if when they called a war, no one went?

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

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

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

If you believe that the world is going to come to an end – and perhaps any day now – does it not drain one’s motivation to improve life on earth while we’re here?

We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama came out against lunatics with guns, she gave the rebuttal.

My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.

If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.

Happiness is a little bit of art on a sad day.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn’t manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should’ve done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

Any day can be Monday when you choose to start right.