I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy..

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal subs….

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism..

People don’t like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they’ve accepted whatever truth….

Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo..

Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian..

English is my second language. Laughter is my first..

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan..

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up..

I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life..

Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with t….

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basica….

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm pass….

I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thin….

Irreverence is our only sacred cow..

There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news..