I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.