"You can't be a human being without a sense of humor. It's the only thing that saves us."

"I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."

"The future is not a destination, it's a direction."

"Optimism is a luxury."

"You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it."