"I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly."

“Did that hurt? On your lip?" "Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though.”

“I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.”

“I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.”

“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.”

“Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.”

“It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.”

Source : "Assault case against Richard Simmons dropped". Reuters, www.today.com. May 27, 2004.

“A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.”

“Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.”