People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high?

That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.

I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.