The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

I believe our country is strong enough to be criticized.

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

Once an innovation is implemented it is no longer innovative.

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.

Professional writers don't have muses

I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.

It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.

I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I’m way more paranoid now.

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.