I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic detachment that I find valuable. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise, for the sake of cell phones and Jet Skis.

One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

It's way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in the world. And it makes for wonderful theater.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.