The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like “Mad Men” is disgusting. It’s a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.

The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us.