I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.

I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

People don’t like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they’ve accepted whatever truth is embedded in your humor.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Relationships are built in the silences.

Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul!

I don’t know what makes people start wanting each other any more than I know what makes it stop all of a sudden. I just know that when you lose it once, you’ll never take it for granted again

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.

Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes.