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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.

Most people's goals are too low and too slow.

I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.