I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish.

Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive.

I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing.

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.

I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

I hope the Jews did kill Christ, I'd do it again in a second.

Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.

If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?

It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

I am so out of the loop. I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.

Take what you've learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we're all here.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.