Bill Hicks

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.

When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

Its not a war on drugs its a war on personal freedom.

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.

I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

Let me tell you about gays in the military. I dont want any gay people hanging around me while Im killing kids. I just dont want to see it.

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

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.