"Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college."

“I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.”

“The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.”

“Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.”

Source : "Charlie Sheen's Naughty, Bawdy Joke Man Reveals Surprising Secrets of the Tour (Exclusive Q&A)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 2, 2011.

“I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.”

“The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.”

“In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.”

Source : "Sugar Shortens Life Span in Worms", abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2009.

“I think we're fooling ourselves if we think that regulators are going to be able to outsmart the bankers. So, the task of designing regulatory reform is trying to make more or less foolproof regulation and that's one of the advantages of the systemic category.”

“Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.”