I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

Just live well. Just live

I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

He seems faster too me. He could get seven to 10 yards in a pretty comfortable fashion. I went up to our defense and said 'Hey guys, that guy is pretty fast.'

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues.

The family is both mystery and reality; it houses our bodies and our spirits.

Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.