I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.

My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.

For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman.

Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.