I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.

We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.

We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

Sometimes I wish I was a guy. Life’s so much easier for them.

I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.

To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That's crazy. But that's 'okay' because you look healthier.

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book

I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a 'waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for absolutely. Pray conditionally for those things you may pray for conditionally. For those things you can't pray for - don't.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.