I love kids. All my best friends have kids, and I love, love, love kids.

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

We can tell a lot about a creature's level of consciousness by understanding their perception of death.

Their heartbeats rushed through his body. His arms circled around her, just so he could keep himself from falling.

the same—on this page, or the end of your fingertips—always the same

If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.

Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

I love dill pickles! They're on my rider for my concerts so I eat one every day.

Remember all fairy tales end at some point.

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.