Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.