I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

Butterflies, butterfliesThey were meant to flyYou and i, you and iWe were colours in the sky

I lost a child, " she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

What was with this family, that all the sons were so freaking handsome it hurt to look at them

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.