I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

After the first million, money isn't important.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice you also need laser like focus combined with unwavering determination.

Theres nothing that will change someones moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If youre not going to offend somebody you dont need protection of the First Amendment.

Freedom of speech doesnt protect speech you like it protects speech you dont like.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside The security of a job a wife who wants kids whatever. But if you hang in there always following your vision I have no doubt you will succeed.

Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.