"Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think."

"Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'"

"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

"If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter."

"Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world."

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

"What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning."

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

"No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves."

"I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter."