“Most governments take advantage of their scientists and listen to them. They don't undermine them and attack them.”

“To listen to the interests of all, marks an ordinary government; to foresee them, marks a great government.”

“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”

“The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.”

“Look these bastards in the eyes, and if anyone attacks you, already decide who will be the one to disconnect the railing where you are, and beat the hell out of them, the no-good bastards! And if you don't have a gun, every one of them has one gun, two guns, maybe three guns. In self-defense, if they attack you, take their goddamn guns from them and use their guns on them! In self-defense. Giuliani is known for taking his police and sending them off in riots. If any one of these bastards riots here today, you take their nightstick the way they did brother Abner Louima and ram it up their behind and jam it down their damn throats!”

“Fascism, with its violence, gets rid of everything: it attacks universities, it closes them and crushes them; it attacks intellectuals, represses them and persecutes them; it attacks political parties; it attacks trade union organizations; it attacks all mass and cultural organizations. Therefore, nothing is more violent, more retrograde and more illegal than fascism.”

“Soul, my soul, don't let them break you,
all these troubles. Never yield:
though their force is overwhelming,
up! attack them shield to shield...”

“Listen Jake… don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you are not taking advantage of it?”

“And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.”

“Don't you think women would like a man's head that always listens to them and agrees?”