God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...

We may not remember life, but we never forget touches of love.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

I was really lucky for the friends that I had and loved every minute of it. I don't think I was a geek, but I loved the studies and we had a really good theater company at our school.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.

Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.