How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

The miss steps are the mistakes you must make.

If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

By all of your beauty I am so inspired. Your love has baptized me by fire.

To know the life principles of the kingdom is to humbly seek them

A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand.

When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.