“(on not being able to keep still): I have to move. I always want to engage the audience, and hopefully they are going to send some energy back”

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”

“I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.”

“When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.”

“If you want to be a radical theologian, you have to be able to say, “I have no idea what is going on.” That’s being a radical theologian.”

“I used to hope that if I went to church long enough, all my inside weight would go away. That ain't right. Jesus may have come to take away our sins, but he left our feelings right where they've always been. I still have inside me some of what I've always had, built up over a lifetime. I just keep adding to it, everyday, like everybody else, and hope the stew gets better the more ingredients I put in.”