"I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue."

“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.”

“There are two sides to every question.”

“I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.”

Source : "Q+A: The State of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 15, 2012.

“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It's a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it's that private perpetual struggle. Put down that magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

Source : "The New Yorker’s One Over 40" by Steve Almond, therumpus.net. June 14, 2010.

“If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.”

“Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.”

“Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.”

“Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”