I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-

I shot that sucker right in the gumpy." Grandma Mazur

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.

My Spanish is limited to burrito and taco.

Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.

-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-

Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.

Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.

Choices are made before explanations, whether or not we care to know it.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.

In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

Optimism is my best defense.