I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

Oh my god! Madison, what is with you and non-human guys?

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

Happy thoughts create happy molecules, and healthy thoughts create healthy molecules.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.

At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said.