I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

I just want to do cool stuff.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it this far."

I want to manufacture a feud.

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.

I have to stay true to myself.

And yet this self, containsTides, continents and stars―a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-bladePassed over by the windAmongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

Diminish the influence of fate

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus

Vaclav Havel didn't want to ride around in big black cars. And he had his own car with a little red heart on it. And he loved to go out and talk to the people.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.