To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

He (Vince Russo) is the only booker I've seen who doesn't get people over, he gets them under.

Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.

The more we give to others, the more we are increased.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?

I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying.