I stared out at the waves. "Why am I here?" I thought. Finally it came to me. But it was too late. I was a terrible lifeguard.

It’s not easy balancing a career, a family and a healthy outlook on life, which is why I don’t.

I've seen enough family photos in enough homes to know that the term 'suitable for framing' should have a stricter definition.

Sure, I'd like a child of my own. I'd also like a laser pistol, that doesn't mean someone should give me one.

Whatever I haven’t accomplished biologically obviously wasn't all that imperative.

There are many ways to roll with the punches. Still, it’s probably best to avoid people who punch you.

Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen.

My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago.

Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?

I had to break up with Medusa. I just got sick of buying mice for her hair. I should have ended it sooner, but you try looking into those eyes.

Inhale courage, exhale fear.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

If you get excited about something, it's totally okay to show it.

We go for our own reality. I remember some of our guys saying it is way harder to make stylized art directed explosions of jade rather than a regular explosion of shrapnel.

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.