I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

Cats probably wouldn't need 9 lives if they wore tiny little helmets and didn't smoke cigarettes.

It's probably not love if you don't press your face to the toilet seat after they've used it to feel their warmth.

If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.

I can't 'make' you love me. But I can fill my pantry with your favourite snacks and offer you a weekly stipend of $75.

I think your ambition for something changes as you go.

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.

It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.

It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up ,so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

For a long time, my subconscious rested in a dark place, ticking through memories like a jukebox selecting a record...

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

Issues arise not from expecting too much from people, but too little.

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

Unless we progress, we regress.

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.