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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.

You seem to be holding up rather well under the burden of the world's troubles. How do you do it?

Women have a role to play in global development.

Character matters leadership descends from character.

Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause

Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

It's so important to me to make the music right that I didn't have time to be intimidated.

If you want to feel proud of yourself, then do good. Take action that will make you proud. . . . And if you really want to feel proud, then do something to help someone else.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.