I'm addicted to when people are bringing you around their country, telling you their stories. They become so enthusiastic, so passionate.

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

Nature isn't hate.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Problems are chances for us to do our best.

A technique is a trick that works.

There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.

Magicians guard an empty safe.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.