I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

You want someone in the ballpark and then you grow together. Thats what a relashionship's about: changing each other.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

I am afraid of the worst, but I am not sure what that is.

will there ever be a drama more beautiful than that of eating?

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.