People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

You must learn to read well, Marisa. As long as you're a good reader, you can learn anything, do anything.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Thank Heaven for Retirement!

The media is Obama's scandal condom.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

If you say three things, you don't say anything.

We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?

Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.