I'd like to give divorce a good name.

I wrote a song that basically turned into a public service announcement for the fellas out there, like, 'Should you run into this type of woman, run for your life!' So the name of the song is 'Run,'...

Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: 'We think we're important enough to charge money for our garbage.'

Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken...

'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about...

I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.

That guy Hogan, he's racist.

I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn't necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have...

There are good things about Indonesia, but there are bad things about it that I hope can be fixed.

The notion of what is public and what is private has been dissolved. My children see documentaries; they see Instagram. Everyone is very open: it has become less taboo to expose lives.

I just think there is so much irrational pessimism in the world.

'Smart Funny & Black' came about because I felt that black comedians were being considered as only capable of a certain type of comedy - sort of physical, kind of silly - and I felt like we are not a...

I love comedy, but more than that, I love comedy that has a message and that has some stakes.

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each...

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer...

I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony.

These days, those who criticize the Union government are being labelled as anti-BJP and those praise it as BJP supporters. Isn't there any middle path?

I'm sort of pro celebrities for celebrities' sake.

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

I'm not going to vote for Donald Trump. There's no way I would vote for him under any circumstance. However, I think that the protesters may as well send him some money, because I think they're going...

Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea - and the tea is the emperor has no clothes!

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here...

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren't that lonely.

I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.

A wedding is such a girl thing.