Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.