I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.

Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn't deter you.

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.

I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.