The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

I was always Luke because I had blond hair, and my mate Stu was Han. Han was the cool one. The Jedi were never the cool ones.

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

Make time, not excuses.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.

The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything