Like Mardi Gras and Halloween rolled into a public party at the Playboy mansion, Rio during Carnaval is like no other place on earth. And the freak-flags fly like the color guard of an invading army.

She told me they were going to Brazil for carnival, ... I said, 'Sure, I'd love to go.'

Ai, que preguiça!

[Critics say Carnival deserves to be treated no differently than a hotel housing relief workers under a FEMA contract.] Carnival should be contributing to the relief effort just like all other taxpayers are, ... Why should they be singled out for special treatment, just because they've been so good at tax avoidance in the past?

Money’ll always end up bad. Man’s greed and man’s killer instinct go hand-in-hand. Watch a barracuda attack something shiny and you’ll see what our fascination with gold is. Think about it. We give actually valuable things like food and shelter for stones. We kill for it. Make no mistake, behind every man who seeks his fortune is a predator.

So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.