It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.

Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.