#1413 - Bill Maher

With the internet, there's a place for every sexual kink (even if you get off to hookers shitting on you while you play with electric trains).

So much of love is, I think, possessiveness—what people think is love. It's not love... Love is selflessness. It's when I care for your happiness more than my own—that's love.

The vast majority of porn stars have either been molested, sexually abused, or physically abused.

If there's a real problem with communication in this society, one of them is the denial of actual facts and information. If we know things and have rock-solid statistics—whether it's about climate change, war, the budget, or whatever the fuck it is—if you have a real number, and you want to spin and deny it, that's a giant problem.

So many people are saying things on social media not because they really believe it, but to get the likes. That's really scary.

It's a horrible hallmark of our era that we live in that facts almost always come second; your political agenda comes first. And if a fact doesn't fit in with our political agenda, then we don't want to hear it. And that's true for both the left and the right.

I don't get America—peoples' attention span is either 7 seconds or 3 hours. There's no in-between.

I'm not surprised that kids have mental problems. What's a first real date like when you saw a team of Japanese businessmen come on some school girl's face when you were 10?

People binge. I don't binge—I never binged anything. I have the opposite problem; I have watching ADD. I love to watch TV—it's the last thing I do before I sleep at night, but unless something is absolutely compelling, I don't watch more than 15 minutes of it. I'll watch 15 minutes of this, and then 15 minutes of that, and 15 minutes of something else, and then go to sleep.

When societies get too successful—and you could make that claim about America—that's when they become effete, that's when they become soft, and that's when they fall. This is a story that goes back to ancient Rome and lots of other societies. You're a victim of your success. In a large way, we're that.

People, unfortunately, get a horrible disease like cancer and say, 'I couldn't have gotten through it without my wife.' I always think, 'Yeah, and maybe she gave it to you.' ... The stress from a bad relationship, I'm sure, is one contributor to cancer.

I never understood the concept of marriage... Why would I invite the federal and state government into my love life?