What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.

Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.

It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

I've never been in a situation where I had to run for my life, but I've been bitten by a lot of poisonous snakes where it was fairly painful. Pythons of size have a lot of teeth in that mouth, it's a painful bite and those wounds get infected fairly easily. I've got snake wounds from these animals that have lasted quite a while where it'll ache for several days. Having said that, I've been lucky; it's not like I'm looking for trouble with these animals either. It's not an envelope I'm willing to push.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.