When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.