If I truly had the courage of my convictions, I would be a full-blown comic novelist.

Each heartbreak is a little death, all the same.

It may well be that there will be this socialism, Juliana, ’ she said, ‘but I can tell you right now that no amount of socialism will make my madam was her own underwear.’ - ‘Aunt Juliana’s Indian

People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.

(President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

I had this wonderful, supportive mother who didn't get mad because of all the earth mucking up my bed. She just said they'd die - they needed the earth.

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

I always felt like I sucked at everything, that I could never find the thing that I liked. I auditioned and I probably sucked, but I had decided 100 percent that this is what I wanted to do.

Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.

Information may be free, but an education is priceless.

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all about the filmmaker.’ I think that’s a good lesson for me.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.