Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

Make deals with people, not paper.