America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

To finish first, you must first finish.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

You've got to learn a pace that's fast enough to win, but slow enough to finish.

The American Dream is about freedom.

You have to be silent, but ready

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

I always composed music as a little kid.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.