Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.