Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.

We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

I think Hillary Clinton is vastly intelligent and good-hearted and extremely qualified.

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.