A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.

You need to fail in order to find the right solution.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Understanding comes through communication, and through communication we find the way to peace.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.