Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.