The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, it's not really a very good idea. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up on the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

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

'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.