Quotes

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

I'm a naturally curious person.

When something actually shocks me, that's when you know it's a great topic.

In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.'

We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.

Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.

A lot of the language about Millennials is extremely gendered.

The brutal fact is that which foods are available in your grocery store is determined by trade wars, agriculture policy, and the outsized power wielded by large corporations.

The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.

Growing up as a comedian the most influential person on me was Jon Stewart. He showed that comedy could have a real tangible effect on the world. He showed that comedy could move the needle of society and that a comic can do real things and make a real contribution.

Employ empathy.

I guess what's happened is that I've a little bit let go of the idea that we can reach everybody. Certain people... the informational world they live in, it's so distorted that it's hard to get through.

My goal is to be able to speak to everyone in the country and to be able to make everyone in the country think differently about our political system.

I don't want to change people's opinions to my political opinion; I want to enlighten people and make them think about the world differently.

As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.

I have a very deep belief that all the problems in society are not because some people are bad and some people are good and we have to get rid of all the wrong people. Everything that we want to fix is because of a flaw in humans in general, something that humans together do incorrectly.

Los Angeles is a rich city; California is a rich state; the United States is a rich country. The money is out there, and Los Angeles teachers are demanding that it be spent where it belongs, on our kids.

I've always been kind of an information sponge.

You can't solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy.

I wanted to go to grad school for philosophy, but I couldn't hack it in college, at least I couldn't at that level.

I don't consider myself an educator.

I think that people are more eager to learn about food than almost every other topic.

Millennials are always on their phones and it's running their lives, but you know who is also on their phones? Moms and Dads and also some dogs... everyone is on their phone all the time.

No one who hired Siegfried & Roy was shocked when they brought a tiger onstage. So you shouldn't be shocked if you book a comedian and she points out that the emperor has no clothes.

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.