I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.

I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership.

When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back. It's not like somebody's gonna save you if you start babbling excuses.