Denial is strong with this one.

It's either perfect, or it's the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)

I couldn’t trust my own mind anymore, which wasthe scariest thing I’ve ever experienced.

In retrospect, crappy chemicals in my brain were working overtime, driving me to destroy myself, like that thing that makes lemmings throw them¬selves over a cliff.

FYI, it isn’t how I suspected. If you eat enough Cheetos you will NOT actually poop an extra-large Cheeto.

...make sure if you're working hard at something it's in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later.

I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.

...it always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, "I'm gonna learn French!" It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?

I'd found my niche: cat-owning, stalker-y secretary. And I played the same part again and again and again.

But it's the science of the stars!""She thinks it's Satanic. You gave her daughter a pentagram.""It's a natal chart, duh. You can't let ignorance trump science here, Miss Mary!

...CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.

I can still kick your pony-lovin' butt with twice this much pain."Thomas shrugged, "I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

I am not a number

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

I think that the big age problem in the job market today is really on the part of employers and that they don't seem to be calculating the cost of age discrimination to them when they practice it.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.