I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

I don't know who Little Richard is.

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

Once a month, a woman turns from a beautiful flower into an angry hippopotamus.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

Plans are great, but missions are better.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.