Imagine Earth as a crime-ridden town, and there is one safe house. How do you keep that safe house, America, always safe? It is called vigilance.

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

Something to keep in mind, whether you adore Obama or Trump: Drooling toadyism is not a good look on either side, and it paves the way for evil. Because while hate can drive people to do many things, love permits leaders to do all things - none of them good.

Normally, 'Saturday Night Live' is about as entertaining as an ocular migraine.

President Obama's farewell speech soared, towered, dragged. True, it was longer than Reagan's, Clinton's and GWB's speeches combined. If it got any longer, it would have qualified as a third term.

Sully's' upbeat message is that we still need humans. It was the heroically human Sully who saved those people, not some cold equation written on a chalkboard.

Hollywood is always about Hollywood.

The rise of ISIS, the orgy of identity politics, and the political changes they brought - how could Obama not see that coming? I blame the golf.

Trump says what he thinks at that moment. He's a totem pole of transparency.

If Obama was a sonnet, Trump is a limerick. And really, which ones do you enjoy more?

I've said it before: If Queen had died and reincarnated as one person, it would be Devin Townsend.

For years, we talked about how the only way to really win the political battles was to win the cultural ones. And rather than simply ignore pop culture, it would be far better to give it a big fat bear hug.

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

When I imagine my viewer - and it sounds saccharine - but it's a family thing. People in line for my books came as families.

I know that, often, people in entertainment are surrounded by 'yes' men who tell you everything is 'go.' That's never been an issue for me.

I know that if I say something that's considered outrageous, a group will take it, create an email blast, and use me to raise money or to do whatever, to build their profile.

As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.

Obama's tenure had more dirty linen then Charlie Sheen's hamper.

Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable math problem, which it is.

There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.

I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That's my motto.