If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind

You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'