I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

The future is greatly different than your life now, the actions that you take must also be greatly different. You cannot do the same thing and get something different.

So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world?

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength.

Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions?" -Ranger