I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.