I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.

I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.

How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?

I think the hardest part to get to is that point of asking for help or reaching out to other people and being honest with yourself.

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

I think everything happens for a reason, so there is no such thing as fail.

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.

I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.