I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy.

Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world.

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.

You do not have to be religious to be spiritual and moral.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.

We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.

The press doesn't matter as much like it used to matter.

When I wake up in the morning, I meditate immediately, before I even get out of bed.

You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

We're covering all our bases so we can do whatever we want next time. That's how we're looking at it, rather than this just being an endless number of album/tour cycles.