I'm not out to make everybody happy. I'm out to make the right people happy.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well, " I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

Be a master of yourself.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Everybody needs somebody.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

Privilege is when you think that something's not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally.

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

Sometimes you just get burnt out with fashion.