I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion... THEIR religion.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to.