Lenny Bruce

"I'm not a role model; I'm just a guy telling jokes."

"The only honest art form is laughter, because you can't fake it."

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had a track team."

"Censorship is the message that says this is too dangerous to think."

"People should be free to find or make for themselves the kind of purpose and meaning for life that appeals to them."

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch."

"The what-if game is the saddest game of all."

"Every group has a comedian. The shortest comedies are the ones we live."

"The real obscenity is not in the language, but in what we tolerate."

"I believe in the church of baseball."

"Take it easy, but take it."

"The only truly free person is the one who says what he thinks."

"We're all here on earth to help others; what the others are here for, I don't know."

"The 'what's wrong with society' speech doesn't work anymore."

"Obscenity is a cleansing process, like an enema."

"Words are either sacred or they're not."

"I'm not a dope fiend, I'm a heroin addict."

"If you believe there's no obscenity in sex, then you'll never understand obscenity."

"The sick comic talks about sickness; that's what comedy is."

"I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable."

"Religions are all the same - they all claim to have the answer."

"The problem is we're taught to think of success in only one way."

"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."

"If it's covered, it's not obscene."

"The worst evil in the world is the belief that we can control others."

"Laughter is the only honest response to an absurd world."

"I've always been a big supporter of freedom - absolute freedom."

"You can't think and hit at the same time."

"I was not put on this earth to please you."

"The role of the artist is to challenge the comfortable and comfort the challenged."