There are no foodies at funerals.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

But I'm quite liberal as a dad.

We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

I love being in front of the camera but I love the fact that I have more control as a producer.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

I wanted to be like Phil Donahue for the internet generation.

Having kids and a relationship at such an early age definitely built up my hunger and perseverance to succeed.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

I want to become successful and represent a different form of beauty in my generation.