We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Bio: Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman was an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and columnist for Texas Monthly who styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.