I'm not a conservative or a republican but I know that there's conservative republicans who I probably vigorously disagree with but I also am smart enough, or something enough, to understand that they really think that they're right, and they're looking at me like I'm crazy.

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry I came in your hair. Don't worry, I won't use your name when I tell this story on stage."

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.