He called himself a "smut peddler". He has a solid gold wheelchair, won a case in front of the US Supreme Court, found and then lost Jesus, and was depicted by Woody Harrelson in a movie about his life. Hero? You be the judge.
After more than 20 years of loudly calling for all the sober, uptight, boring assholes in the world to fuck off and die, he fucked off and died.
(d) October 2nd, 1999