Quotes from Bill Hicks

The reason the world's so fucked up is we're undergoing evolution. And the reason our institutions, our traditional religions are all crumbling is because they're no longer relevant

The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.

I'm tired of this back-slappin' isn't humanity neat bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

The thing is, that most of the people in Congress want us to think that every problem is so unsolvable. They just gloss over them and make us think that sometime in the 'near' distant future they will be resolved. So the people just think to themselves, 'Who knows better than this guy, I guess?

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.' 'Wow! Did you see the news?

the problem with this country. Ah, one of them. There are many. But this whole issue of sexuality and pornography, which I don't understand what pornography is, I really don't. To me pornography is, you know, spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons. That's pornographic to me.

Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

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

I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!

Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.

People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. 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.

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.

Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

Rock stars against drugs--that's what we want, isn't it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We're partying now!

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.

I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.

I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.

Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.