"Money is the best deodorant."

“The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.”

“If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down”

Source : James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

“Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.”

“Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations”

“Always love your country - but never trust your government!”

Source : "Memoir from the 'Prince of Darkness'". Interview wih Bill Steigerwald, triblive.com. July 21, 2007.

“I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.”

“...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?”

“Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.”