I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

The Trial of Poppy Moon is free over Easter.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.

So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

I don't like you, but I love you.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.