I'm not really a big candy eater.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

Cherish the good, learn from the bad

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Liberation does not come from outside.

It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.