I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

The world has a way of dragging down our mood.

Learn to feel good and you will realize that your life becomes better…

However mean your life is meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

There is still a lot of hard work that we as a country need to do. They can't look to any one individual, whether it's Barack or it's the next new hope that's going to appear to be that savior.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.