I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.

People tell me I have the best job in the world, which is true, but I also work with some of the best people in the world.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.