When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.

I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.

I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.