A person supporting [Donald]Trump likes Trump. And I think they would say the same about me.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

If you are going to start, don't quit. But if you are going to quit, don't even start!

I'm somebody who likes to gravitate toward people who aren't necessarily famous.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.

Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.

Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today.