Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

I was always Luke because I had blond hair, and my mate Stu was Han. Han was the cool one. The Jedi were never the cool ones.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.

Love is real. In every single moment, there are only two choices: love or fear. I can tell you from experience that love is exponentially more powerful. And a hell of a lot more fun.

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.