I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

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.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

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.