I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants.

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.

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

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."

Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof.

Trust me, somewhere over the rainbow, happily ever after, etcetera, etcetera - looks far less likely in your mid-thirties.

You know when you hear the 22 suicides a day it's a big part of your question. But when you hear the 22 suicides a day that should never be.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I'm still alive. And I'm still fabulous.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

We don't need any troops abroad-they don't help our defense.