When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

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

My basic political philosophy is, I ain't mad at that. Which basically means I don't have to have a strong opinion about everything. I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes I'm just not mad at it. Like, What do you think about gay marriage? I ain't mad at you, you're gay and you're married: I ain't mad at you, go do it.

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.