When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

It's never fun to read death threats.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

It's like a banana farm for guns!

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.