I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

Let’s quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we’ve never really been.

What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

I never thought I was the best; I just thought I was one of the best.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

I am always with London On Da Track, Wheezy, 808 Mafia Mike Will Made It, Ricky Racks.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.