First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.

The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!

Proper positive positioning is the key to experiencing miracles.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

Most countries want to bring their people together and tear down physical, commercial and cultural barriers. Anyone who proposes separating them is out of line.