I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of the sky, but for me, it was the idea of space exploration that fueled my interest. I grew up in that age of the astronauts, and I was fascinated that we could leave the Earth.

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know?

I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ - ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.

You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.