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

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, it's not really a very good idea. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up on the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke.

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

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.