Literally, my last call was with David Blaine, congratulating him on his show. I have a camaraderie with David.

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.

. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true