I know I still had to take money from my parents, because no one can afford to live in Manhattan, not even the rich people.

Death is the only thing keeping us in line.

Thank God there's somebody that doesn't like Stuart Scott. I'm so happy!. It was nice to have that counter-balance to ESPN.

I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much at night, because I don't like to - I'd rather watch TV.

I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before.

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit.

If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still follow them, because they're so real and so tangible.

I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.

I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay. I'll put this in your stocking."

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

Do people who believe in reincarnation ever say, Darn, I'm still writing the year 1612 on my checks!

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

A name means a lot just by itself.

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.