I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas.

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one thing that the medical profession cannot do and that is save people from being idiots.