Adam Conover

“I find that a really restful, relaxing way to spend time on a plane is to listen to an audiobook while drawing.”

“At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'”

“Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.”

“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.”

“Information's right at our fingertips, but so is what you want to believe. It's the classic thing of someone Googling 'autism vaccines' - they'll find what they're looking for, depending on what they think. You'll find lots of people who are just bolstering what they already think, bolstering their cultural attitude.”

“I find that I have a lot of suppressed energy when I'm on a plane for a long period so when I'm holding a fidget spinner, being able to play with it and just sort of run my hands over it helps me out quite a lot; it helps me relax.”

“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.”

“I loved 'Beakman's World' growing up. As much as I loved 'Bill Nye,' I always preferred 'Beakman's World' because I thought it was funnier.”

“The journalistic and political classes are very eager to borrow the cultural authority of comedians when it suits them, sending out gala invitations and posing for photos in hopes that a bit of that edgy satirical shine will rub off on them.”

“If it weren't for the fellow union members and leaders who have my back, the barons of the TV industry would happily pay me a nickel a page and spend what would have been my residuals on more caviar to put in their infinity pools.”

“People are so quick to demonize and stereotype those on the other side that they often say that it's impossible to work with people on the other side.”

“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'm the only member of my family who didn't get a PhD. So, I'm like the failure of the family, cause all I have is a bachelor's, like a drop out.”

“I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.”

“All my life I have been the guy who always says, 'Oh I think I read a thing about that and you know it's actually true about that is yada yada.' The reaction that I got when I would do that from people when I did that was not always good.”

“Wading River was a gorgeous place to grow up and I feel very lucky there was a wood by our house where I could go explore when I was a kid.”

“It's one thing to make people laugh, but after a certain point, comedy is almost cheap.”

“You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.”

“In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.”

“I hate cars; in terms of what they do to nature and personally I just don't like driving them. I think they're a very bad way to design a transportation system.”