I like people trying to do two things at once.

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

I'm afraid of flying.

It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

There is no such thing as failure

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote