The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

The last few years on ‘South Park’ we have done some of the riskiest things we have ever done, knowing it could kill the show, but we also know that’s what we have to do.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.

Mercy, how we do so often love to immortalize those despised and forgotten in life.

I want to love and be loved.... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.

However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

Photo of POTUS mtg w speechwriters Cody Keenan and Jon Favreau today.

I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.

I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.