In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.

You know who would make an interesting murder-suicide? Madeline Albright and Yanni.

I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.