The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

I'm an American, I don't have to see something to know it's stupid!

Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you!

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.

You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them... they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.