Teaching is performance art.

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.