I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

My fame is due to broadcast television.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.