I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

The last few years on ‘South Park’ we have done some of the riskiest things we have ever done, knowing it could kill the show, but we also know that’s what we have to do.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

The man smiled. "Harry is unique, for he was born with a special gift of sight, with eyes able to see things that are unseen. He has talents to move matter by the sound of his voice.

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing to say. I don't consider it writer's block; I just don't have anything to say.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.