As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle.

I think if I believe in something strongly enough, I'm pretty outspoken about it.

I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.

The good thing about being stuck at the airport for an extra hour, is that it gives you a chance to give weary travelers surprise massages.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.