Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.

You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

I really like to put my name on everything, so my roommate doesn't steal it. It's really a throwback to that.

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.

O moon! I may not be able to reach you or touch you with my hands, but I will never forget to kiss your silvery twinkling lips with my lovely eyes.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22)

Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.