For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.

The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.

Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

Donald Trump didn't cause chaos. Chaos caused Trump.

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day.

I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where, I love you directly without problems or pride:I love you this way because I know no other way to love,

I have come to the conclusion that some people come in your life as blessings, others come in your life as lessons.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked. "It only works on wild animals." "So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned. "Hey!" I protested.

Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.

I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.