I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.

The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

I always wanted to rebel.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.