I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone

When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.

Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

Give regularly. Stewardship is not a once-a-year consideration, but a week-to-week, month-to-month commitment requiring discipline and consistency.

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.