“I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us…to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.”

Truly, the only stupid people I’ve ever met, the most absolutely clueless, are the very people that produce television.

What’s gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we’re all one. Ha ha ha ha ha! It’s gonna fuck up the economy!

Surgeon General’s warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.

Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

How are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we’re all one?

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

If I thought the Jews killed God, I’d worship the Jews.

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts…Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

You want a better world…? Legalize pot right now. …end the deficit? Legalize pot right now…biggest cash crop in America.

It’s an insane world, and I’m proud to be a part of it.

To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

Ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. “I believe God created me in one day.” Yeah, looks like he rushed it.

I can’t believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.

At least he f-kin’ jams! If it’s a choice between eternal Hell and good tunes, and eternal Heaven and New Kids on the f-kin’ Block … I’m gonna be surfin’ on the lake of fire, rockin’ out.

You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know during the Persian Gulf war those intelligence reports would come out: “Iraq: incredible weapons – incredible weapons.” How do you know that? “Uh, well… we looked at the receipts.”

Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.

This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment.

We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. …

I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I’m a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

I’m not much interested in my own self when I write. I’m interested in what I observe out there, what’s going on around me.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, – the fear instinct.