I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.

You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.

People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

It doesn't really matter to me whether the 7-year-olds are big fans of my work. I'm happy just to be working at all. I do think it will be nice to have a movie that my son can watch.

Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.

I eat stickers all the time dude!

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

Mistakes and failures are valuable experiences. With every experience, you increase in knowledge and wisdom for the ultimate success.

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.

If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.