A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

In a day a man needs only his daily bread.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.

And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thought you were normal you turned out to be abnormal.

Some people don’t respond to civility.

Donald Trump is communicating with people in America who've felt like they have not been listened to.

I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.