Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.

Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.

I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours.

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm capitalism is that kind of a system.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

Could a father not marry his son?

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves