Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

Even though it was a stressful time in my life, I have a lot of good memories from my Idol experience.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

My life is a very simple life thank you