I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

Through my pain and sorrow, God has prepared me to share His word with others in a way that was made just for me.

If you want to heal Heal othersAnd smile or weepAt this happy reversal of fate

The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface

The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.

The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.