In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

I don’t like the intellectual label.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Christians are not limited to any church.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Trump has no sense of shame.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Society is at odds with itself.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Sin is geographical.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.