Ever since I visited Paris when I was younger, the sappy side of me really wanted to write a song about it someday.
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
The Cassini mission was all about a comprehensive investigation of Saturn and everything in the Saturn system, and it's been a mission that's been done jointly with the Europeans.
I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.
Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
There is something so fun about scaring yourself.
I really love scary movies, so I'm all about Halloween.
I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched.
I was not sceptical coming to Pakistan. I took the job because I was really excited about it.
We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
I'm on my computer a lot, but I swear I have an excuse! I spend about nine hours on media a day, but seven or eight of those are doing my schoolwork.
Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.
Screenwriting is about condensing.
It doesn't make any sense for us to do a scripted series if it's not going to be big, so we have to be really disciplined about them.
