Half of what I say is meaningless

All good poems are victories over something.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Education is neither eastern nor western.

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.

Do not allow your enemy to define you. Because if you allow yourself to be defined negatively, nothing positive you say about yourself will register.

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'