“The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.”

You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.

I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.

I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.

My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.

But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That’s 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.

Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.

But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.

It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,

Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.