It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.