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.

America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

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

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.

Read everything and be kind.

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.