“I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.”
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Source: The Core, in: An Olaf Stapledon Reader, Syracuse University Press, New York 1997: pp. 266-272.
"How it came about?" from Anarchism Is Not Enough (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928)

George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (HBO, 1997)
Interviews, Television Appearances

“I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.”
New York Press interview (15 June 2006) http://www.nypress.com/19/24/books/feature2.cfm

“One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.”
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm

“I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers…”

“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”
Source: The Monsters Of Hellboy II
Beating the drums of hope and faith (2004)
Context: I feel for, and identify with, individuals on their spiritual journeys — whether those journeys are hard or smooth. That is why I write about the young man who parties all night and finds it hard to get along with his parents; I sing about the Muslim girl murdered by her father and step mother; I write about the death of a close relative and the struggle of dealing with that parting; I write about conflict within marriage; difficulties being a good parent; religious hypocrisy; consumerism; sexual abuse; religious narrow-mindedness; these are all struggles that are very real within our community. Even if I have not felt these struggles first hand, seeing others around me experience such tests does effect me… the social repercussions of these struggles effect us all one way or another.