I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
The frustrating thing about 'Friday Night Lights' is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.
I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.
We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.
The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.
He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated.
The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.
We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
