Leah Bennett

“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
― Lenny Bruce

“…Catholicism is like Howard Johnson, and what they have are these franchises and they give all these people different franchises in the different countries but they have one government, and when you buy the Howard Johnson franchise you can apply it to the geography - whatever's cool for that area - and then you, you know, pay the bread to the main office.”
― Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce: his original unexpurgated satirical routines

“There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.”
― Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

“There are never enough 'I love you's.”
― Lenny Bruce