Cats probably wouldn't need 9 lives if they wore tiny little helmets and didn't smoke cigarettes.

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

It's probably not love if you don't press your face to the toilet seat after they've used it to feel their warmth.

If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.

I can't 'make' you love me. But I can fill my pantry with your favourite snacks and offer you a weekly stipend of $75.

I think your ambition for something changes as you go.

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.

It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.

It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up ,so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

Ian " she said quietly "I'd rather die than go back to you." "Be careful what you ask for you may get what you want.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.

We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.