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.

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.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.