In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

I'm not the beautiful one.

I get sidetracked very easily.

I’m afraid to close my eyes, I’m afraid to open them

I'm trying to drink more water.

It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.

The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things.

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

If we are not a part of the solution, then we are the problem