[Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.

Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.

What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to me mentally, is not a depression, is not a death. It is a transformation. It is a transcendence.

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much.

Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself.