"A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life."

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

“I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.”

“Don't hate the media, become the media.”

Source : "Political punk Jello Biafra takes verbal aim". Interview with Phil Cauthon, www2.ljworld.com. April 18, 2003.

“When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.”

“We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.”

“I have a sordid past.”

“If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.”

“If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.”