I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.

When you're trying to coordinate four separate shows together, it's pretty Herculean.

I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.

It's hard to fit everything in and still have episodic television.

My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives.

Never let the story beat you home.

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

I've face more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.

There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.

The Gods have meant That I should dance And by the Gods I will!