"What do we know but that we face one another in this place?"

-- William Butler Yeats

“At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.”
“But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.”
“We ought to make the pie higher.”
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
“When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.”
“The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.”
“A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.”

Source : "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.
“First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.”

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