I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald.

How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

Don’t worry," I said. "These men are good. They’re going to heal the world.

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.