I loved Woody Allen's short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and INTELLECTUAL but also making REALLY BROAD JOKES.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of DINER food, humble faith, HONEST TOIL, and Capraesque VIRTUE.

My high-school PAPERS, my college-application essays, READ LIKE Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter SANDWICH.

You can't PROVE Rembrandt is BETTER than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's WORK. Taste is a blood SPORT.

I don't GET like when people say Josh Norman is tough. Don't get me WRONG, he's a GOOD PLAYER.

I CONSIDER myself a DISCIPLE of Norman Lear. And one of the THINGS he did was topic-driven HUMOR.

When in 1963 we started large-scale research and testing with semi-dwarf varieties of wheat obtained from Mexico through Norman Borlaug, the new PLANT types attracted MEDIA ATTENTION IMMEDIATELY.

I've always been a FAN of books that create an INTERESTING blend of fact and fiction - WHETHER it's Norman Mailer, or 'The SHORT Timers,' or 'In Cold BLOOD.' I'm a fan of that genre.

Norman Rockwell - EVEN though we think of him as a great AMERICAN artist, in a lot of museums he has not garnered that kind of attention. And it's this kind of ACCESSIBILITY that we're trying to bring - not LOOKING down on any art.

When I turned 18, was the first TIME that I really STARTED concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I REALIZED that in ORDER to really CREATE and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.