When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.