I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

People can't change. We're pre-programmed robots going through the motions. We're the same at death as we are at birth.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Don't you dare hit me in the head, you know I'm not normal!

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.