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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
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"I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see."

"I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything."

"George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil."

"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes."

"90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on."

"I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form."

"Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period."
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