I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

After a full belly all is poetry.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Maybe family were the people who came looking for you when you were lost.

We only have one desire, which wants to manifest in thousands of ways, like a flower who blooms in billions of shadesto express her only one desire...to be beautiful

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I'd never needed to know that my sister was a screamer. Never. That Mal was a screamer too just kind of confused me.

Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

Dirk Nowitzki will be better than Larry Bird. I'm a legend killer.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

The sardines had their heads on and they were like watching you.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.