But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

Journalism is an act of faith in the future.

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

I think I'm commercial underground. I'm not commercial in the way that people consider 'pop,' but I'm not underground in the way that people consider that. either. I am just a cool guy.

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.