Bill Hicks

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

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.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

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

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

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 always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.