I think that people are usually more comfortable working with and entrusting money to those who seem most like them.

It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.

Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.

Show me success without ego!

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.