The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?

I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.