I've become a much more serious young insect.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.