"I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing."

“a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”

“When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.”

“As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.”

“We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.”

“Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.”

Source : Source: www.archdaily.com

“You should employ your little grey cells”

“Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.”

Source : "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.