But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.

I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

Writer speaks a stench.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise.

I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist.

He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.

If you act like you can do something, then it will work.

Past all shame, so past all truth.