At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.

I know you don’t understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward, ” he says.

I don’t give sick days if you’re playing in the snow.” He’s being funny, or trying to be funny. I can never tell which.

I’ll rid the world of each one of you, ” he whispered. “Every single one…

There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.

Who am I kidding? This isn’t a fairy tale. It’s my life.

This world isn’t a fair place, because we never know how much time we’ve really got.

You can be quiet and go back to kissing me, or you can leave.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

No women no kids - that's the rules.

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.