I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

At some point the body offers only disappointment.

Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.