Bill Hicks

Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids would pull up: 'STRATFORD SUCKS!' Am I supposed to run after these guys? I'd just stand there, you know. They'd back up. 'STRATFORD SUCKS! ...STRATFORD SUCKS!' I'd say, 'I know. I go there. You're wasting gas, man.

I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake.

To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.

What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?

Marijuana grows naturally...Don't you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don't know, unnatural?

I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest.

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.

When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.

You know all the money we spend on nuclear weapons and defence every year? Trillions of dollars? Correct? Trillions. Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world,which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, not one, we could, as one race, explore outer space together in peace forever

We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.

I think it's interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice sentiment, but do you think when Jesus comes back, he's really going to want to look at a cross?

The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

I've had good times on drugs...bad times on drugs...But I've had good and bad relationships...and I'm not giving up pussy.

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?