I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.
There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.
A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.