1. “Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned -- I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture or necrodestination.”
2. “Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”
3. “A wise man once said that the only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.”
4. “Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.”
5. “Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not wisdom, Wisdom is not truth, Truth is not beauty, Beauty is not love...”
6. “It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work, and the other is nostalgia.”
7. “One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.”
8. “Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”
9. “Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom; Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love; Love is not music; Music is the best.”
10. “Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”
11. “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.”
12. “Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.”
13. “The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.”
14. “You can't be a Real Country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
