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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.