You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterus’s, do you? No, you don’t see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do.

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element is present in all art. It is the key to even standing up and saying, "Hey, listen to me." Self-expression can be based on looking at the world and making observations about it.