“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”

“When you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“If freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

“Television can illuminate and yes, it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are willing to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.”

“I don’t know karate, but I know ka-razy.”

“The Edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.”

“The phrase, ‘if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it,’ are the words of the complacent, the arrogant and the scared.”

“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we all are his accomplices.”

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.”

“With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.”

“A slow movie that closely observes human beings and their relationships can be endlessly fascinating, while a thriller with nonstop wall-to-wall action can be boring, because it is all relentlessly pitched at the same tone.”

“Money trumps morality every time.”

“Copyright law does not distinguish between sampling and counterfeiting. That’s just stupid, that’s just art-oblivious, and that’s just no way to proceed in this century. Or the last one. It doesn’t bode well for the future of art that the law can’t distinguish between this simple idea that’s been around for a hundred years, that art can be made out of other art. If you prevent people from doing it, you’re really constricting art itself.”

“What about people who are living in a world of media, and want to make art or music that reacts to that world? In that area of the discussion, pretty much anything other than the whole is up for grabs. And I’d personally rather see a world where we erred on the side of sometimes letting people take too much and maybe make some stupid bad art out of it then the world we live in now, where it’s so restrictive.”

“I’d play for half my salary if I could bat in this dump all the time.”

“I’m not going to make a skeptical (sic) out of my boxing career.”

“You’ve got to continue to grow, or you’re just like last nights cornbread…stale and dry.”