When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

I don't go to bars and stuff like I used to, but I live each day to make something.

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

When it came right down to it, the reindeer would eat you.