You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Did you ever notice, when you are sitting at a red light, that when the person in front of you pulls up a couple of inches, you are compelled to move up too? Do we really think we are making progress toward our destination? "Whew, I thought we would be late, but now that I am nine inches closer, I can stop for coffee and a danish!"

For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.

If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.