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

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.