We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f...k you're talking about.

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.