“Me? I just don’t have expensive tastes I guess — I don’t collect cars or paintings or jewelry, and I gave up my heroin habit years ago. But I also know that, as I said when I presented that giant check to Priorities USA Action last Thursday at the end of my stand up special on Yahoo!, ‘This hurts!’ I was trying to make the point that if I could do it, a lot of other people could do it a lot more easily than me.”
— HBO’s Bill Maher, writing on the Huffington Post, about his million-dollar donation to Priorities USA Action, the Super PAC that’s supporting President Obama’s reelection effort. In a piece titled “The Great Thing About Having Been Poor,” Maher extolled the virtues of coming of age without money, writing, “The great thing about having been poor is how liberated it makes you if you eventually become rich. There’s nothing like the knowledge that you don’t need money to survive.”
